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Revision abd96ecb298675a21c412a29f5de2f80174d5f18 authored by Oleg Nesterov on 22 August 2007, 21:01:58 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 23 August 2007, 02:52:47 UTC 
exec: kill unsafe BUG_ON(sig->count) checks
 
de_thread:

	if (atomic_read(&oldsighand->count) <= 1)
		BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1);

This is not safe without the rmb() in between.  The results of two
correctly ordered __exit_signal()->atomic_dec_and_test()'s could be seen
out of order on our CPU.

The same is true for the "thread_group_empty()" case, __unhash_process()'s
changes could be seen before atomic_dec_and_test(&sig->count).

On some platforms (including i386) atomic_read() doesn't provide even the
compiler barrier, in that case these checks are simply racy.

Remove these BUG_ON()'s. Alternatively, we can do something like

	BUG_ON( ({ smp_rmb(); atomic_read(&sig->count) != 1; }) );

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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rtmutex-debug.h 
/*
 * RT-Mutexes: blocking mutual exclusion locks with PI support
 *
 * started by Ingo Molnar and Thomas Gleixner:
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
 *  Copyright (C) 2006, Timesys Corp., Thomas Gleixner <tglx@timesys.com>
 *
 * This file contains macros used solely by rtmutex.c. Debug version.
 */

extern void
rt_mutex_deadlock_account_lock(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct task_struct *task);
extern void rt_mutex_deadlock_account_unlock(struct task_struct *task);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_init_waiter(struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_free_waiter(struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_init(struct rt_mutex *lock, const char *name);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_lock(struct rt_mutex *lock);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_unlock(struct rt_mutex *lock);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_proxy_lock(struct rt_mutex *lock,
				      struct task_struct *powner);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_proxy_unlock(struct rt_mutex *lock);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_deadlock(int detect, struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter,
				    struct rt_mutex *lock);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_print_deadlock(struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter);
# define debug_rt_mutex_reset_waiter(w)			\
	do { (w)->deadlock_lock = NULL; } while (0)

static inline int debug_rt_mutex_detect_deadlock(struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter,
						 int detect)
{
	return (waiter != NULL);
}
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