From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:18:06 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Discourage use of pthread_atfork() for call_rcu handlers
X-Git-Tag: v0.7.6~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.liburcu.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b11b5a6351905940d82a9df1c3324be4f09f6950;hp=b11b5a6351905940d82a9df1c3324be4f09f6950;p=urcu.git

Discourage use of pthread_atfork() for call_rcu handlers

Discourage use of glibc pthread_atfork() for call_rcu handlers due to
its inappropriate assumptions about single-threadedness while pthread
atfork handlers are executing. This results in hangs within the glibc
memory allocator.

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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