Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:51:14 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3.0-rc2-tip 4/22]  4: Uprobes: register/unregister
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On 06/16, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
>
> In which case, shouldnt traversing all the tasks of all siblings of
> parent of mm->owner should provide us all the the tasks that have linked
> to mm. Right?

I don't think so.

Even if the initial mm->ovner never exits (iow, mm->owner is never changed),
the "deep" CLONE_VM child can be reparented to init if its parent exits.

> Agree that we can bother about this a little later.

Agreed.


Oh. We should move ->mm from task_struct to signal_struct, but we need to
change the code like get_task_mm(). And then instead of mm->owner we can
have mm->processes list. Perhaps. This can be used by zap_threads() too.

Oleg.

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