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| author | David Rientjes | 2015-11-06 03:48:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2015-11-06 04:34:48 +0100 |
| commit | da39da3a54fed88e29024f2f1f6cd7357cd03a44 (patch) | |
| tree | ca4bbdc90d4f7e3cf2e7258135380b6b4b0f5fc6 /mm/vmscan.c | |
| parent | mm, compaction: distinguish contended status in tracepoints (diff) | |
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mm, oom: remove task_lock protecting comm printing
The oom killer takes task_lock() in a couple of places solely to protect
printing the task's comm.
A process's comm, including current's comm, may change due to
/proc/pid/comm or PR_SET_NAME.
The comm will always be NULL-terminated, so the worst race scenario would
only be during update. We can tolerate a comm being printed that is in
the middle of an update to avoid taking the lock.
Other locations in the kernel have already dropped task_lock() when
printing comm, so this is consistent.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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