According to the comments, nr_threads is protected by lock_kernel, but
do_fork() runs without the bkl for ages.
Would it be possible to use your percpu_counters for nr_threads? It
seems to be used only to guard against fork bombs and for i_nlink of /proc.
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Manfred
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