Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:07:28 +0000 (GMT) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] -mm check_rlimit oops on p->signal |
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote: > > > > + if (likely(p->signal && p->exit_state < EXIT_ZOMBIE)) { > > Worried. This places an ordering interpretation on TASK_* and EXIT_* which > AFAIK hadn't been there beforehand. If someone later comes along and adds
I understand your concern, but kernel/exit.c already contained several tests for "exit_state >= EXIT_ZOMBIE", so I followed those precedents.
Hugh
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