[Devel] Re: [PATCH] pidns: Fix wait for zombies to be reaped in zap_pid_ns_processes

Serge E. Hallyn serge at hallyn.com
Tue Jul 13 15:34:50 PDT 2010


Quoting Louis Rilling (Louis.Rilling at kerlabs.com):
> Hi Eric,
> 
> On 12/07/10 11:09 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> This patch looks like it is working (only a small RCU issue shown below). I
> couldn't try it yet though.
> 
> I must admit that I am using a similar back-off solution in Kerrighed (not to
> solve the issue of proc_flush_task(), but for one of the reasons that you stated
> above: we want to be sure that all tasks of the namespace have been reaped), but
> I considered it too ugly to propose it for Linux ;)
> 
> That said, this is probably the least intrusive solution we have seen yet.

Yeah I haven't had a chance to look at it in detail, but this looks
right.  Thanks, Eric.

-serge
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