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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-10-15 11:31:54 +1100 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-10-15 11:31:54 +1100 |
| commit | 6dc6472581f693b5fc95aebedf67b4960fb85cf0 (patch) | |
| tree | 06a5a9a08519950575505273eabced331ed51405 /kernel/exit.c | |
| parent | ee673eaa72d8d185012b1027a05e25aba18c267f (diff) | |
| parent | 8acd3a60bcca17c6d89c73cee3ad6057eb83ba1e (diff) | |
Merge commit 'origin'
Manual fixup of conflicts on:
arch/powerpc/include/asm/dcr-regs.h
drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.h
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 16395644a98f..85a83c831856 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -583,8 +583,6 @@ mm_need_new_owner(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p) * If there are other users of the mm and the owner (us) is exiting * we need to find a new owner to take on the responsibility. */ - if (!mm) - return 0; if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) <= 1) return 0; if (mm->owner != p) @@ -627,6 +625,16 @@ retry: } while_each_thread(g, c); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + /* + * We found no owner yet mm_users > 1: this implies that we are + * most likely racing with swapoff (try_to_unuse()) or /proc or + * ptrace or page migration (get_task_mm()). Mark owner as NULL, + * so that subsystems can understand the callback and take action. + */ + down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); + cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(mm->owner, NULL); + mm->owner = NULL; + up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); return; assign_new_owner: |