On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:32:02PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I think the _real_ simplification is to just have the task switch do this
> in the tail:
>
> if (prev->state & TASK_DEAD)
> put_task_struct(prev);
>
> suddenly we don't have any issues at all with possibly freeing stuff
> before its time, since we're guaranteed to keep the process around untill
> we've properly scheduled out of it.
Side note ... if there's a sleepable context in which oprofile can
synchronise its buffers (i.e. after the task can possible run on a CPU
again, and before the task_struct itself is freed/reused), that would be
very handy.
Currently we're masking out any samples when PF_EXITING is set for
current(), which is obviously less than ideal.
Would this be such a spot ? Basically somewhere that profile_exit_task
can sit.
regards
john
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