From 246bb0b1deb29726990620d8b5e55ca29f331362 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:47:38 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/fork.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 228f80c9155..eeaec6893b0 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mmput); /** * get_task_mm - acquire a reference to the task's mm * - * Returns %NULL if the task has no mm. Checks PF_BORROWED_MM (meaning + * Returns %NULL if the task has no mm. Checks PF_KTHREAD (meaning * this kernel workthread has transiently adopted a user mm with use_mm, * to do its AIO) is not set and if so returns a reference to it, after * bumping up the use count. User must release the mm via mmput() @@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ struct mm_struct *get_task_mm(struct task_struct *task) task_lock(task); mm = task->mm; if (mm) { - if (task->flags & PF_BORROWED_MM) + if (task->flags & PF_KTHREAD) mm = NULL; else atomic_inc(&mm->mm_users); -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258