linux/include
Eric W. Biederman bde0d2c98b [PATCH] vt: Make vt_pid a struct pid (making it pid wrap around safe).
I took a good hard look at the locking and it appears the locking on vt_pid
is the console semaphore.  Every modified path is called under the console
semaphore except reset_vc when it is called from fn_SAK or do_SAK both of
which appear to be in interrupt context.  In addition I need to be careful
because in the presence of an oops the console_sem may be arbitrarily
dropped.

Which leads me to conclude the current locking is inadequate for my needs.

Given the weird cases we could hit because of oops printing instead of
introducing an extra spin lock to protect the data and keep the pid to
signal and the signal to send in sync, I have opted to use xchg on just the
struct pid * pointer instead.

Due to console_sem we will stay in sync between vt_pid and vt_mode except
for a small window during a SAK, or oops handling.  SAK handling should
kill any user space process that care, and oops handling we are broken
anyway.  Besides the worst that can happen is that I try to send the wrong
signal.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:14 -07:00
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acpi
asm-alpha [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-arm [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] consistently use MAX_ERRNO in __syscall_return 2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
asm-avr32 [PATCH] AVR32 MTD: Static Memory Controller driver 2006-09-26 08:48:54 -07:00
asm-cris [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-frv [PATCH] paravirt: remove set pte atomic 2006-10-01 00:39:34 -07:00
asm-generic [PATCH] paravirt: remove set pte atomic 2006-10-01 00:39:34 -07:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] remove SYSRQ_KEY and related defines from ppc/sh/h8300 2006-10-01 00:39:22 -07:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] paravirt: update pte hook 2006-10-01 00:39:34 -07:00
asm-ia64 [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] paravirt: remove set pte atomic 2006-10-01 00:39:34 -07:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] consistently use MAX_ERRNO in __syscall_return 2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] consistently use MAX_ERRNO in __syscall_return 2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
asm-mips [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-powerpc [PATCH] update legacy io handling for pmac 2006-10-01 00:39:23 -07:00
asm-ppc [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-s390 [PATCH] Directed yield: direct yield of spinlocks for s390. 2006-10-01 00:39:22 -07:00
asm-sh [PATCH] remove SYSRQ_KEY and related defines from ppc/sh/h8300 2006-10-01 00:39:22 -07:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] ntp: cleanup defines and comments 2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
asm-sparc [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-sparc64 [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-um [PATCH] uml: remove pte_mkexec 2006-09-29 09:18:04 -07:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] consistently use MAX_ERRNO in __syscall_return 2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] kill wall_jiffies 2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] ntp: cleanup defines and comments 2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
crypto
keys
linux [PATCH] vt: Make vt_pid a struct pid (making it pid wrap around safe). 2006-10-02 07:57:14 -07:00
math-emu
media Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb 2006-09-30 09:39:15 -07:00
mtd
net [PATCH] Add genetlink utilities for payload length calculation 2006-10-01 00:39:29 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma IB/sa: fix ib_sa_selector names 2006-09-22 15:22:55 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [PATCH] scsi: device_reprobe() can fail 2006-09-30 19:33:43 -07:00
sound [PATCH] maximum latency tracking: ALSA support 2006-10-01 00:39:19 -07:00
video
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