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authorBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2008-10-15 22:01:05 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 11:21:28 -0700
commit9363b9f23c9cc36cc8ef6c05fdf879ee4a96ae92 (patch)
tree482746b06d6fdd8be606de4dff584a3a40054c4c /kernel/exit.c
parent1648993fb05c487947c1cec6307aca29d8002abe (diff)
downloadlinux-9363b9f23c9cc36cc8ef6c05fdf879ee4a96ae92.tar.gz
memrlimit: cgroup mm owner callback changes to add task info
This patch adds an additional field to the mm_owner callbacks. This field
is required to get to the mm that changed. Hold mmap_sem in write mode
before calling the mm_owner_changed callback

[hugh@veritas.com: fix mmap_sem deadlock]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 85a83c831856..0ef4673e351b 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -640,24 +640,23 @@ retry:
 assign_new_owner:
 	BUG_ON(c == p);
 	get_task_struct(c);
+	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	/*
 	 * The task_lock protects c->mm from changing.
 	 * We always want mm->owner->mm == mm
 	 */
 	task_lock(c);
-	/*
-	 * Delay read_unlock() till we have the task_lock()
-	 * to ensure that c does not slip away underneath us
-	 */
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 	if (c->mm != mm) {
 		task_unlock(c);
+		up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		put_task_struct(c);
 		goto retry;
 	}
 	cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(mm->owner, c);
 	mm->owner = c;
 	task_unlock(c);
+	up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	put_task_struct(c);
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_MM_OWNER */