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

From: Anton Vorontsov
Date: Mon Feb 06 2012 - 11:42:20 EST


On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:36:49AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

Yep, without the first two there is just a bit of sparse warnings.
Not a big deal.

Thanks,

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Anton Vorontsov
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