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[PATCH] NPTL signal delivery deadlock fix
authorBhavesh P. Davda <bhavesh@avaya.com>
Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:55:12 +0000 (09:55 -0700)
committerChris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:55:12 +0000 (09:55 -0700)
commit4b45a6364a096cc4d899c9d19aad852865eb0ebb
tree9336ad9cb63b5bf46aee0182429953ca757293d9
parent332b8bee402fe1076e50d08dfa535a9f0a349cba
[PATCH] NPTL signal delivery deadlock fix

This bug is quite subtle and only happens in a very interesting
situation where a real-time threaded process is in the middle of a
coredump when someone whacks it with a SIGKILL. However, this deadlock
leaves the system pretty hosed and you have to reboot to recover.

Not good for real-time priority-preemption applications like our
telephony application, with 90+ real-time (SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR)
processes, many of them multi-threaded, interacting with each other for
high volume call processing.

Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
kernel/signal.c