Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 1999 13:08:28 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] fixed both processes in D state and the /proc/ oopses [Re: [patch] Fixed the race that was oopsing Linux-2.2.0] |
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On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
> yes, there is no atomic_inc_and_test() yet. (it's a bit tricky to
_Where_ do you want to run atomic_inc_and_test()? On random kernel data where incidentally a long time ago there was the just deallocated and reused (somewhere else) mm_struct?
If we incidentally access the mm_struct and we notice that the mm->count is zero it menas we are just buggy.
> sign flag.) Also note that this is all fiction yet because we _are_ > holding the kernel lock for these situations in 2.2.
Sure it's finction, but _all_ complains I get against my s/atomic_t/int/ was about the future.
Andrea Arcangeli
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