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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2008-07-25 01:47:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-25 10:53:39 -0700
commit246bb0b1deb29726990620d8b5e55ca29f331362 (patch)
tree5173b9e0c1d18934a8b2693c690a7162acb1bca8 /fs
parent7b34e4283c685f5cc6ba6d30e939906eee0d4bcf (diff)
downloadlinux-246bb0b1deb29726990620d8b5e55ca29f331362.tar.bz2
kill PF_BORROWED_MM in favour of PF_KTHREAD
Kill PF_BORROWED_MM. Change use_mm/unuse_mm to not play with ->flags, and do s/PF_BORROWED_MM/PF_KTHREAD/ for a couple of other users. No functional changes yet. But this allows us to do further fixes/cleanups. oom_kill/ptrace/etc often check "p->mm != NULL" to filter out the kthreads, this is wrong because of use_mm(). The problem with PF_BORROWED_MM is that we need task_lock() to avoid races. With this patch we can check PF_KTHREAD directly, or use a simple lockless helper: /* The result must not be dereferenced !!! */ struct mm_struct *__get_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk) { if (tsk->flags & PF_KTHREAD) return NULL; return tsk->mm; } Note also ecard_task(). It runs with ->mm != NULL, but it's the kernel thread without PF_BORROWED_MM. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/aio.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 0fb3117ddd93..0051fd94b44e 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -586,7 +586,6 @@ static void use_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
task_lock(tsk);
- tsk->flags |= PF_BORROWED_MM;
active_mm = tsk->active_mm;
atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count);
tsk->mm = mm;
@@ -610,7 +609,6 @@ static void unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
task_lock(tsk);
- tsk->flags &= ~PF_BORROWED_MM;
tsk->mm = NULL;
/* active_mm is still 'mm' */
enter_lazy_tlb(mm, tsk);