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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:45:31 -0800
From: Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch@...gle.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] getrusage: use sig->stats_lock
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 7:51 AM Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Dylan, do you have something to add?
>
> Oleg.
>
I have one last question -- is there possibly an edge case in which
the hard lockup
can still happen? How likely is it for many writers to force enough
readers to do a
retry on the seqlock, disabling irq and causing the lockup? Is this
not a concern
because there aren't many writers?
Thanks,
Dylan
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