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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>,
	"Ma, Xindong" <xindong.ma@intel.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com>,
	"Tu, Xiaobing" <xiaobing.tu@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] oom_kill: change oom_kill.c to use for_each_thread()
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:57:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131204125728.GA2549@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANMivWbMmra05sqAgZb7AP+W0qAs8z3jGgsMPPML=3v5TZfFwA@mail.gmail.com>

Sameer, I didn't notice this part yesterday.

On 12/03, Sameer Nanda wrote:
>
> > @@ -406,7 +409,7 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
> >  {
> >         struct task_struct *victim = p;
> >         struct task_struct *child;
> > -       struct task_struct *t = p;
> > +       struct task_struct *t;
> >         struct mm_struct *mm;
> >         unsigned int victim_points = 0;
> >         static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(oom_rs, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,
> > @@ -437,7 +440,7 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
> >          * still freeing memory.
> >          */
> >         read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> This can be a rcu_read_lock now, I think?

No, we need tasklist for list_for_each_entry(t->children), it
is not rcu-safe.

Oleg.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-04 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-02 15:24 [PATCH 0/2] initial while_each_thread() fixes Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-02 15:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] introduce for_each_thread() to replace the buggy while_each_thread() Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 19:24   ` Sameer Nanda
2013-12-02 15:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] oom_kill: change oom_kill.c to use for_each_thread() Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 18:57   ` Sameer Nanda
2013-12-03 20:05     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 20:50       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-04 12:57     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-12-02 15:34 ` [PATCH 0/2] initial while_each_thread() fixes Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 15:46 ` Sergey Dyasly
2013-12-03 18:52   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 19:01   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 16:53 ` William Dauchy
2013-12-03 20:22   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 20:28     ` William Dauchy

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