Signal-related changes for 3.19
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| # | Subject and files | Size | Replies | Applied |
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| 1/2 | signal: Exit RCU read-side critical section on each pass through loopkernel/ | +14 | 0 replies | |
| 2/2 | signal: Document the RCU protection of ->sighandkernel/ kernel/ | +15 | 0 replies |
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| Patch | Oleg Nesterov | Steven Rostedt | Rik van Riel | Pranith Kumar |
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| Series | R-b | |||
| 1/2 | A-b | |||
| 2/2 | R-b | R-b |
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Cover letter [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/2] Signal-related changes for 3.19
Hello!
This series updates RCU handling in signals:
1. Prevents a possible very long RCU read-side critical section
in kill_pid_info().
2. Explain why the "obviously buggy" freeing of sighand by
__cleanup_sighand() without an RCU grace period really isn't buggy, courtesy of Oleg Nesterov.
Thanx, Paul
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b/kernel/fork.c | 5 ++++- b/kernel/signal.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)