On 02/26, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:00:43PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > In that case we should also modify ____call_usermodehelper(), otherwise we > > have > > the same "deadlock" if it is frozen. But this is not so easy to do as I > > thought > > before. > > Before ____call_usermodehelper can freeze, it should have entered userspace > right? By that time, its vfork parent should have definitely woken up, > which should avoid the deadlock you point out?
Ah, yes, thanks for correcting me. We are doing flush_old_exec() a way before entering userspace of course. Oleg. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
