The patch titled Subject: mm, oom: remove task_lock protecting comm printing has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-oom-remove-task_lock-protecting-comm-printing.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-oom-remove-task_lock-protecting-comm-printing.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-oom-remove-task_lock-protecting-comm-printing.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, oom: remove task_lock protecting comm printing The oom killer takes task_lock() in a couple of places solely to protect printing the task's comm. A process's comm, including current's comm, may change due to /proc/pid/comm or PR_SET_NAME. The comm will always be NULL-terminated, so the worst race scenario would only be during update. We can tolerate a comm being printed that is in the middle of an update to avoid taking the lock. Other locations in the kernel have already dropped task_lock() when printing comm, so this is consistent. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/cpuset.h | 4 ++-- kernel/cpuset.c | 14 +++++++------- mm/oom_kill.c | 8 +------- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/cpuset.h~mm-oom-remove-task_lock-protecting-comm-printing include/linux/cpuset.h --- a/include/linux/cpuset.h~mm-oom-remove-task_lock-protecting-comm-printing +++ a/include/linux/cpuset.h @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ extern int current_cpuset_is_being_rebou extern void rebuild_sched_domains(void); -extern void cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *p); +extern void cpuset_print_current_mems_allowed(void); /* * read_mems_allowed_begin is required when making decisions involving @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static inline void rebuild_sched_domains partition_sched_domains(1, NULL, NULL); } -static inline void cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *p) +static inline void cpuset_print_current_mems_allowed(void) { } diff -puN kernel/cpuset.c~mm-oom-remove-task_lock-protecting-comm-printing kernel/cpuset.c --- a/kernel/cpuset.c~mm-oom-remove-task_lock-protecting-comm-printing +++ a/kernel/cpuset.c @@ -2598,22 +2598,22 @@ int cpuset_mems_allowed_intersects(const } /** - * cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed - prints task's cpuset and mems_allowed - * @tsk: pointer to task_struct of some task. + * cpuset_print_current_mems_allowed - prints current's cpuset and mems_allowed * - * Description: Prints @task's name, cpuset name, and cached copy of its + * Description: Prints current's name, cpuset name, and cached copy of its * mems_allowed to the kernel log. */ -void cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *tsk) +void cpuset_print_current_mems_allowed(void) { struct cgroup *cgrp; rcu_read_lock(); - cgrp = task_cs(tsk)->css.cgroup; - pr_info("%s cpuset=", tsk->comm); + cgrp = task_cs(current)->css.cgroup; + pr_info("%s cpuset=", current->comm); pr_cont_cgroup_name(cgrp); - pr_cont(" mems_allowed=%*pbl\n", nodemask_pr_args(&tsk->mems_allowed)); + pr_cont(" mems_allowed=%*pbl\n", + nodemask_pr_args(¤t->mems_allowed)); rcu_read_unlock(); } diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom-remove-task_lock-protecting-comm-printing mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom-remove-task_lock-protecting-comm-printing +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -386,13 +386,11 @@ static void dump_tasks(struct mem_cgroup static void dump_header(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *memcg) { - task_lock(current); pr_warning("%s invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x%x, order=%d, " "oom_score_adj=%hd\n", current->comm, oc->gfp_mask, oc->order, current->signal->oom_score_adj); - cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(current); - task_unlock(current); + cpuset_print_current_mems_allowed(); dump_stack(); if (memcg) mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(memcg, p); @@ -518,10 +516,8 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control if (__ratelimit(&oom_rs)) dump_header(oc, p, memcg); - task_lock(p); pr_err("%s: Kill process %d (%s) score %u or sacrifice child\n", message, task_pid_nr(p), p->comm, points); - task_unlock(p); /* * If any of p's children has a different mm and is eligible for kill, @@ -595,10 +591,8 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control if (fatal_signal_pending(p)) continue; - task_lock(p); /* Protect ->comm from prctl() */ pr_info("Kill process %d (%s) sharing same memory\n", task_pid_nr(p), p->comm); - task_unlock(p); do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_FORCED, p, true); } rcu_read_unlock(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-oom-remove-task_lock-protecting-comm-printing.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html