On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:54:08PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > Also note this is currently protected by the tasklist readlock. Cred guard mutex is > > certainly better, I just don't remember if you remove the tasklist lock in a > > further patch. > > Ah recalling what Ben Blum said, we also need the leader to stay stable because it > is excpected to be passed in ->can_attach(), ->attach(), ->cancel_attach(), ... > Although that's going to change after your patches that pass a flex array. Not really without locking out exec. The thing is whoever is exec'ing will be the leader and we can't guarantee that the first in the flex array is always the leader. One method may see it as the leader, the next one might not. Thanks. -- tejun _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
