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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:39:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/linux linux_machdep.c linux_sysvec
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010124113951.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010124104547.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On 24-Jan-01 John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 24-Jan-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> * John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> [010124 02:28] wrote:
>>> jhb         2001/01/24 02:26:13 PST
>>> 
>>>   Modified files:
>>>     sys/alpha/linux      linux_machdep.c linux_sysvec.c 
>>>   Log:
>>>   Proc locking.
>> 
>> This looks like another natural race condition:
>> 
>>         int     p_sigparent;            /* (c) Signal to parent on
>> exit. */
>> 
>> Can't int assignments be assumed to be atomic?
>> 
>> +       PROC_LOCK(p);
>>         p2->p_sigparent = exit_signal;
>> +       PROC_UNLOCK(p);
> 
> Well, I b0rked that one (p2 not p).  To fix the race, what probably
> should happen is what we do with kthreads in kthread_create:  create
> the process with RFSTOPPED, and don't makea it runnable until we are
> done futzing around with it.

How about something like
http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/linux.patch?

-- 

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