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Commit dd12f48d authored by Bhavesh P. Davda's avatar Bhavesh P. Davda Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[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: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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