Re: [-mm] Add an owner to the mm_struct (v7)

[Paul Menage]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > +     /*
>  > +      * Search through everything else. We should not get
>  > +      * here often
>  > +      */
>  > +     do_each_thread(g, c) {
>  > +             if (c->mm == mm)
>  > +                     goto assign_new_owner;
>  > +     } while_each_thread(g, c);
>
>  What is the case in which we get here?  Threading that's two deep where
>  none of the immeidate siblings or children is still alive?

Probably the most likely case of this would be a LinuxThreads process
where the manager thread exits, and then the main thread, while other
threads still exist.

Paul
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