Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We make sure that the thread flag read is coherent between our new test and > the ALLWORK_MASK test by first saving it in a register used for both > comparisons. >
That doesn't make sense. If someone is setting those asynchronously you can always race. You should really just stop the process like ptrace does before changing such things. -Andi - 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/