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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> | 2008-07-25 01:47:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-25 10:53:39 -0700 |
| commit | 246bb0b1deb29726990620d8b5e55ca29f331362 (patch) | |
| tree | 5173b9e0c1d18934a8b2693c690a7162acb1bca8 /kernel/fork.c | |
| parent | 7b34e4283c685f5cc6ba6d30e939906eee0d4bcf (diff) | |
| download | lwn-246bb0b1deb29726990620d8b5e55ca29f331362.tar.gz lwn-246bb0b1deb29726990620d8b5e55ca29f331362.zip | |
kill PF_BORROWED_MM in favour of PF_KTHREAD
Kill PF_BORROWED_MM. Change use_mm/unuse_mm to not play with ->flags, and
do s/PF_BORROWED_MM/PF_KTHREAD/ for a couple of other users.
No functional changes yet. But this allows us to do further
fixes/cleanups.
oom_kill/ptrace/etc often check "p->mm != NULL" to filter out the
kthreads, this is wrong because of use_mm(). The problem with
PF_BORROWED_MM is that we need task_lock() to avoid races. With this
patch we can check PF_KTHREAD directly, or use a simple lockless helper:
/* The result must not be dereferenced !!! */
struct mm_struct *__get_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
if (tsk->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
return NULL;
return tsk->mm;
}
Note also ecard_task(). It runs with ->mm != NULL, but it's the kernel
thread without PF_BORROWED_MM.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 228f80c9155a..eeaec6893b0d 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mmput); /** * get_task_mm - acquire a reference to the task's mm * - * Returns %NULL if the task has no mm. Checks PF_BORROWED_MM (meaning + * Returns %NULL if the task has no mm. Checks PF_KTHREAD (meaning * this kernel workthread has transiently adopted a user mm with use_mm, * to do its AIO) is not set and if so returns a reference to it, after * bumping up the use count. User must release the mm via mmput() @@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ struct mm_struct *get_task_mm(struct task_struct *task) task_lock(task); mm = task->mm; if (mm) { - if (task->flags & PF_BORROWED_MM) + if (task->flags & PF_KTHREAD) mm = NULL; else atomic_inc(&mm->mm_users); |