Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/2] Signal-related changes for 3.19

[Pranith Kumar]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.


Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx>

>
>                                                         Thanx, Paul
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  b/kernel/fork.c   |    5 ++++-
>  b/kernel/signal.c |   42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>



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Pranith
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