The patch titled Subject: coredump: cleanup the waiting for coredump_finish code has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was coredump-cleanup-the-waiting-for-coredump_finish-code.patch This patch was dropped because it was nacked ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: coredump: cleanup the waiting for coredump_finish code Replace the for loop with a simple if. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Chan <benchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/exit.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/exit.c~coredump-cleanup-the-waiting-for-coredump_finish-code kernel/exit.c --- a/kernel/exit.c~coredump-cleanup-the-waiting-for-coredump_finish-code +++ a/kernel/exit.c @@ -481,12 +481,9 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct * if (atomic_dec_and_test(&core_state->nr_threads)) complete(&core_state->startup); - for (;;) { - set_task_state(tsk, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); - if (!self.task) /* see coredump_finish() */ - break; + set_task_state(tsk, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + if (self.task) /* see coredump_finish() */ schedule(); - } __set_task_state(tsk, TASK_RUNNING); down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx are coredump-only-sigkill-should-interrupt-the-coredumping-task.patch coredump-ensure-that-sigkill-always-kills-the-dumping-thread.patch coredump-sanitize-the-setting-of-signal-group_exit_code.patch lockdep-check-that-no-locks-held-at-freeze-time.patch lockdep-check-that-no-locks-held-at-freeze-time-v2.patch lockdep-check-that-no-locks-held-at-freeze-time-fix.patch coredump-use-a-freezable_schedule-for-the-coredump_finish-wait.patch coredump-abort-core-dump-piping-only-due-to-a-fatal-signal.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