linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] change current_is_single_threaded() to use for_each

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Message-ID: <2956.1444225819@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:50:19 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change current_is_single_threaded() to use for_each_thread()

Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:

> To clarify, we had some "real" bugs fixed by s/while_each_thread/
> for_each_thread/, but only because while_each_thread() was used wrongly.
> for_each_thread() is more safe, it only needs the stable task_struct.

Fair enough.

David
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