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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2016-08-02 14:03:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-08-02 17:31:41 -0400
commitef419398b68925f21fd3d8463c7bf6934d2ec926 (patch)
tree7e8d69e75acb73da297061a5201e20a0c634f207 /fs/proc
parentMAINTAINERS: befs: add new maintainers (diff)
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proc_oom_score: remove tasklist_lock and pid_alive()
This was needed before to ensure that ->signal != 0 and do_each_thread() is safe, see commit b95c35e76b29b ("oom: fix the unsafe usage of badness() in proc_oom_score()") for details. Today tsk->signal can't go away and for_each_thread(tsk) is always safe. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160608211921.GA15508@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 31370da2ee7c..54e270262979 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -579,11 +579,8 @@ static int proc_oom_score(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
unsigned long totalpages = totalram_pages + total_swap_pages;
unsigned long points = 0;
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
- if (pid_alive(task))
- points = oom_badness(task, NULL, NULL, totalpages) *
- 1000 / totalpages;
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+ points = oom_badness(task, NULL, NULL, totalpages) *
+ 1000 / totalpages;
seq_printf(m, "%lu\n", points);
return 0;