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Commit 1434261c authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] simplify exec from init's subthread



I think it is enough to take tasklist_lock for reading while changing
child_reaper:

	Reparenting needs write_lock(tasklist_lock)

	Only one thread in a thread group can do exec()

	sighand->siglock garantees that get_signal_to_deliver()
	will not see a stale value of child_reaper.

This means that we can change child_reaper earlier, without calling
zap_other_threads() twice.

"child_reaper = current" is a NOOP when init does exec from main thread, we
don't care.

Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent fef23e7f
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