The patch titled document de_thread() with exit_notify() connection has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was document-de_thread-with-exit_notify-connection.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: document de_thread() with exit_notify() connection From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Add a couple of small comments, it is not easy to see what this code does. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/exec.c | 2 +- kernel/exit.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/exec.c~document-de_thread-with-exit_notify-connection fs/exec.c --- a/fs/exec.c~document-de_thread-with-exit_notify-connection +++ a/fs/exec.c @@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct if (!thread_group_leader(tsk)) { leader = tsk->group_leader; - sig->notify_count = -1; + sig->notify_count = -1; /* for exit_notify() */ for (;;) { write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); if (likely(leader->exit_state)) diff -puN kernel/exit.c~document-de_thread-with-exit_notify-connection kernel/exit.c --- a/kernel/exit.c~document-de_thread-with-exit_notify-connection +++ a/kernel/exit.c @@ -877,6 +877,7 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_stru state = EXIT_DEAD; tsk->exit_state = state; + /* mt-exec, de_thread() is waiting for us */ if (thread_group_leader(tsk) && tsk->signal->notify_count < 0 && tsk->signal->group_exit_task) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch posix-timers-bug-10460-discard-the-pending-signal-when-the-timer-is-destroyed.patch workqueue-remove-redundant-function-invocation.patch put_pid-make-sure-we-dont-free-the-live-pid.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html