"ps -f" hung after "killall make" of make -j20 kernel builds. It's
generally considered bad manners to down_write something you already
have down_read. exit_mm up_reads before calling mm_update_next_owner,
so I guess exec_mmap can safely do so too. (And with that repositioning
there's not much point in mm_need_new_owner allowing for NULL mm.)
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
---
Fix to memrlimit-cgroup-mm-owner-callback-changes-to-add-task-info.patch
quite independent of its recent sleeping-inside-spinlock fix; could even
be applied to 2.6.26, though no deadlock there. Gosh, I see those patches
have spawned "Reviewed-by" tags in my name: sorry, no, just "Bug-found-by".
fs/exec.c | 2 +-
kernel/exit.c | 2 --
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- 2.6.26-rc8-mm1/fs/exec.c 2008-07-03 11:35:20.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/fs/exec.c 2008-07-03 20:27:20.000000000 +0100
@@ -738,11 +738,11 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *m
tsk->active_mm = mm;
activate_mm(active_mm, mm);
task_unlock(tsk);
- mm_update_next_owner(old_mm);
arch_pick_mmap_layout(mm);
if (old_mm) {
up_read(&old_mm->mmap_sem);
BUG_ON(active_mm != old_mm);
+ mm_update_next_owner(old_mm);
mmput(old_mm);
return 0;
}
--- 2.6.26-rc8-mm1/kernel/exit.c 2008-07-03 11:35:37.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/kernel/exit.c 2008-07-03 20:28:35.000000000 +0100
@@ -588,8 +588,6 @@ mm_need_new_owner(struct mm_struct *mm,
* 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)
--
