On Tue 04-10-16 18:21:14, Oleg Nesterov wrote: [...] > so this can't detect the multi-threaded group exit, and ... > > > list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &dead, ptrace_entry) { > > list_del_init(&p->ptrace_entry); > > - release_task(p); > > + if (release_task(p) && p == tsk) > > + last = true; > > this can only happen if this process auto-reaps itself. Not to mention > that exit_notify() will never return true if traced. > > No, this doesn't look right. You are right. I should have noticed that. Especially when I was hunting the strace hang bug. I started to have a bad feeling about this patch but for some reason I just didn't put all the pieces together. So the patch is completely b0rked. Back to drawing board and start again. Oh well... Anyway thanks and sorry to waste your time. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>