From 691e4a81420e570a5579ed78e5d89e2ebace08e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Birkholz Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 11:35:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] smp: README.txt correction. Squash into ae2e9ce. --- README.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 066b85137..e68a48f7e 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -751,8 +751,8 @@ microcode modules and ./findprim. modify a process_table entry member and so should grab the process_table_mutex. If a SIGCHLD interrupts a processor holding the mutex, it will deadlock, so SIGCHLDs must be - masked before the mutex is grabbed and unmasked before SIGCHLD - is unmasked. + masked before the mutex is grabbed and unmasked after the + mutex is released. Readers of the process_table needn't serialize with writers. Like channel_table, process_table is atomically updated by -- 2.25.1