Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 15/15] Add DEFINE_SPUFS_ATTRIBUTE() | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:17:48 +0200 |
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On Thursday 13 September 2007, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Well that'd be nice, but I don't see anywhere that that happens. AFAICT > the acquire we do in the first coredump callback is the first the SPU > contexts know about their PPE process dying. And spufs is still live, so > I think we definitely need to grab the mutex, or we might race with > userspace accessing spufs files.
Right, I was only thinking about the dumping process itself, but there may be other processes that still have files open for that context.
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