Re: [PATCH] has_stopped_jobs: s/task_is_stopped/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED/

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Jul 13 2011 - 06:17:21 EST


On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:33:54PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> has_stopped_jobs() naively checks task_is_stopped(group_leader). This
> was always wrong even without ptrace, group_leader can be dead. And
> given that ptrace can change the state to TRACED this is wrong even
> in the single-threaded case.
>
> Change the code to check SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED and simplify the code,
> retval + break/continue doesn't make this trivial code more readable.
>
> We could probably add the usual "|| signal->group_stop_count" check
> but I don't think this makes sense, the task can start the group-stop
> right after the check anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

As for "|| signal->group_stop_count", it might be better to use the
same wrapper here too for consistency if we add one.

Thank you.

--
tejun
--
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/