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SubjectRe: lockdep trace from posix timers
On 08/20, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
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> On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 17:14 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > I still think that task_work_add() should synhronize with exit_task_work()
> > itself and fail if necessary. But I wasn't able to convince Al ;)
>
> I'm not at all sure how that relates to needing task_lock() in the
> keyctl stuff.

To serialize with exit_mm() which clears ->mm.

We shouldn't do task_work_add(task) if the exiting task has already
passed exit_task_work(). There is no way to do this after ed3e694d7
(and I think this is wrong), so keyctl relies on the fact that
exit_task_work() is called after exit_mm().

> Also, can't task_work use llist stuff? That would also avoid using
> ->pi_lock.

Not sure.... task_work_add/run can use cmpxchg, but _cancel can't.

Oleg.



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