Discourage use of pthread_atfork() for call_rcu handlers
authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:18:06 +0000 (12:18 -0500)
committerMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Wed, 9 Jan 2013 18:08:00 +0000 (13:08 -0500)
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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