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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH 5/5] exec: RT sub-thread can livelock and monopolize CPU on exec
In-Reply-To: Oleg Nesterov's message of  Saturday, 18 August 2007 21:40:01 +0400 <20070818174001.GA218@tv-sign.ru>
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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:25:25 -0700 (PDT)
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Maybe it can use wait_task_inactive, which IIUC is being changed to address
the same RT issue.  OTOH, notify_count exists only for this.  So maybe the
better way is to clean that whole mechanism up somehow.  The exit.c changes
in your patch seem to be making it more mysterious rather than less so.
I haven't really thought much about the better solution.


Thanks,
Roland
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