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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] getrusage: fill ru_maxrss value
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:00:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081124180031.GA20155@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081124170253.741d2e6e@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com>

On 11/24, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>
> @@ -1588,6 +1589,13 @@ static void k_getrusage(struct task_struct *p, int who, struct rusage *r)
>  				accumulate_thread_rusage(t, r);
>  				t = next_thread(t);
>  			} while (t != p);
> +			if (p->mm) {
> +				update_hiwater_rss(p->mm);
> +				if (r->ru_maxrss < p->mm->hiwater_rss)
> +					r->ru_maxrss = p->mm->hiwater_rss;

The task can free its ->mm right after the check. You need get_task_mm(),
but you can't do this under ->siglock because it takes task_lock().

I think you can move this code outside of lock_task_sighand().

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-24 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-24 16:02 [PATCH] getrusage: fill ru_maxrss value Jiri Pirko
2008-11-24 18:00 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-02 12:18 Jiri Pirko
2008-12-02 16:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-12-02 16:50   ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-12-02 16:53   ` Jiri Pirko

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