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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:43:12 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] procfs: Export next_tgid(), move it to kernel/pid.c
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On 01/30, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
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> We'd like to use this function in the android low memory killer driver, so
> let's export it.

I guess you mean 3/3.

If lowmem_shrink() can use next_tid() which is not really accurate,
then why tou can't simply change it to use rcu_read_lock ?

Oleg.