Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:36:49 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/6] staging: android/lowmemorykiller: Don't grab tasklist_lock |
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On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:29:41PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > Grabbing tasklist_lock has its disadvantages, i.e. it blocks > process creation and destruction. If there are lots of processes, > blocking doesn't sound as a great idea. > > For LMK, it is sufficient to surround tasks list traverse with > rcu_read_{,un}lock(). > > >From now on using force_sig() is not safe, as it can race with an > already exiting task, so we use send_sig() now. As a downside, it > won't kill PID namespace init processes, but that's not what we > want anyway. > > Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Are these last 4 patches independant of the first 2 and can be taken through the staging tree now?
thanks,
greg k-h
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