Re: [PATCH] pidns: Fix wait for zombies to be reaped inzap_pid_ns_processes

[Sukadev Bhattiprolu]

Eric W. Biederman [ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
| Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
| 
| > This patch looks like it is working (only a small RCU issue shown below). I
| > couldn't try it yet though.
| 
| It certainly worked in my testing. 
| 
| > I must admit that I am using a similar back-off solution in Kerrighed (not to
| > solve the issue of proc_flush_task(), but for one of the reasons that you stated
| > above: we want to be sure that all tasks of the namespace have been reaped), but
| > I considered it too ugly to propose it for Linux ;)
| 
| Well sometimes you have to go with what works.
| 
| Thanks for spotting those issue with my patch.  I guess it needs one more
| pass before I can call it done.

Eric,

Do you plan to resend this patch ? 

FYI, we ran into the problem that Louis Rilling reported when testing with
the checkpoint/restart code and this patch fixes the problem (after a minor
tweak to the C/R code).

Thanks,

Sukadev
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/