Re: [PATCH 2/2] getrusage: use sig->stats_lock

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 19:27:49 -0800 Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> I applied these to a 5.10 kernel, and my repro (calling getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF)
> from 200K threads) is no longer triggering a hard lockup.

Thanks, but...

The changelogs don't actually describe any hard lockup.  [1/2] does
mention "the deadlock" but that's all the info we have.

So could we please have a suitable description of the bug which these are
addressing?  And a Reported-by:, a Closes: and a Fixes would be great too.