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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 /include/linux/flat.h
parent2d1e10412c2388ff9b6afc60536eaa195a419289 (diff)
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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