[PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/2] Signal-related changes for 3.19

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Oct 28 2014 - 18:17:28 EST


Hello!

This series updates RCU handling in signals:

1. Prevents a possible very long RCU read-side critical section
in kill_pid_info().

2. Explain why the "obviously buggy" freeing of sighand by
__cleanup_sighand() without an RCU grace period really isn't
buggy, courtesy of Oleg Nesterov.

Thanx, Paul

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b/kernel/fork.c | 5 ++++-
b/kernel/signal.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

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