Hello,

On 11/28/2010 09:44 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
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> Today I lost the concentration at 13/14 ;)
> 
> Will continue tomorrow. As for this patch,

Eh, well, you've already found enough holes in the patchset.  It's
like a swiss cheese.  I'll update and repost.

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> On 11/26, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>
>> This wake_up_process() has a turbulent history.  This is a remnant
>> from ancient ptrace implementation and patently wrong.  Commit
>> 95a3540d (ptrace_detach: the wrong wakeup breaks the ERESTARTxxx
>> logic) removed it
> 
> Yes. This obviously means I personally like this change. In fact,
> I never understood this wakeup, and I was glad to find the reason
> to send the patch.

Another thing is that the use of wake_up_process() in ptrace is rather
scary even in ptrace_resume().  It will wake up even uninterruptible
sleeps.  Is there any reason it's not just waking up
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE | STOPPED | TRACED?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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