kill PF_BORROWED_MM in favour of PF_KTHREAD
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:38 +0000 (01:47 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:53:39 +0000 (10:53 -0700)
commit246bb0b1deb29726990620d8b5e55ca29f331362
tree5173b9e0c1d18934a8b2693c690a7162acb1bca8
parent7b34e4283c685f5cc6ba6d30e939906eee0d4bcf
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 <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/aio.c
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/fork.c