Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] Add polling support to pidfd

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Sat Apr 20 2019 - 08:35:17 EST


On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 02:26:15PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 04/20, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > Note that we need
> > thread_group_empty() only for the case when the task is traced,
>
> Damn, sorry for noise... of course this is not true, I tried to say that
> notification won't come otherwise. Nevermind, lets discuss this when we
> have a patch. I already got lost in this thread and I have no idea what

Agreed. The polling work is not targeted for the 5.2 merge window
anyway so there's no need to rush this.

> are you all talking about ;)

Nothing patch-worthy comes without a solid portion of controversy and
confusion at first. ;)

Christian