Re: [PATCH 3/6] staging: android/lowmemorykiller: Don't grabtasklist_lock

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:29:41PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> Grabbing tasklist_lock has its disadvantages, i.e. it blocks
> process creation and destruction. If there are lots of processes,
> blocking doesn't sound as a great idea.
> 
> For LMK, it is sufficient to surround tasks list traverse with
> rcu_read_{,un}lock().
> 
> >From now on using force_sig() is not safe, as it can race with an
> already exiting task, so we use send_sig() now. As a downside, it
> won't kill PID namespace init processes, but that's not what we
> want anyway.
> 
> Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@xxxxxxxxxx>

Are these last 4 patches independant of the first 2 and can be taken
through the staging tree now?

thanks,

greg k-h
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