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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2015-11-05 18:48:05 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-05 19:34:48 -0800
commitda39da3a54fed88e29024f2f1f6cd7357cd03a44 (patch)
treeca4bbdc90d4f7e3cf2e7258135380b6b4b0f5fc6 /kernel
parent2d1e10412c2388ff9b6afc60536eaa195a419289 (diff)
downloadlinux-da39da3a54fed88e29024f2f1f6cd7357cd03a44.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cpuset.c14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index f0acff0f66c9..9ef59a37c190 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -2598,22 +2598,22 @@ int cpuset_mems_allowed_intersects(const struct task_struct *tsk1,
 }
 
 /**
- * cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed - prints task's cpuset and mems_allowed
- * @tsk: pointer to task_struct of some task.
+ * cpuset_print_current_mems_allowed - prints current's cpuset and mems_allowed
  *
- * Description: Prints @task's name, cpuset name, and cached copy of its
+ * Description: Prints current's name, cpuset name, and cached copy of its
  * mems_allowed to the kernel log.
  */
-void cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *tsk)
+void cpuset_print_current_mems_allowed(void)
 {
 	struct cgroup *cgrp;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 
-	cgrp = task_cs(tsk)->css.cgroup;
-	pr_info("%s cpuset=", tsk->comm);
+	cgrp = task_cs(current)->css.cgroup;
+	pr_info("%s cpuset=", current->comm);
 	pr_cont_cgroup_name(cgrp);
-	pr_cont(" mems_allowed=%*pbl\n", nodemask_pr_args(&tsk->mems_allowed));
+	pr_cont(" mems_allowed=%*pbl\n",
+		nodemask_pr_args(&current->mems_allowed));
 
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }