On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:26:13PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Please find attached a proposal for emulating Linux exit_group(). I'm not
> sur it follows The Right Way.
> 
> exit_group is supposed to exit all threads of a group. We emulate Linux
> threads as processes with shared memory.
> 
> In order to exit all the processes in a group:
> - I awake sleeping processes
> - I tag processes as doomed by exit_grouo
> - a test in syscall and userret checks the tag and call exit1 if nescessary.
> 
> I'm not sure the test in syscall is a good idea.

It's not - that is no-starter.

Furthermore, you do not want to use PROCLIST_FOREACH(), or anything other
with O(n) characteristics. The lwps in the thread group should be connected
via a linked list, and you should only handle processes in the exiting
thread group.

I also note exit_group() is still broken in regards to group_pid
setting. It would cause exit of all threads within the process
no matter if created with CLONE_THREAD flag or not. This means
the infamous openoffice2-bin 'Killed' problem will resurface again.
This needs to be adressed, too.

Jaromir
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