The patch titled Subject: mm-oom_kill-fix-the-wrong-task-mm-==-mm-checks-in-oom_kill_process-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-oom_kill-fix-the-wrong-task-mm-==-mm-checks-in-oom_kill_process-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-oom_kill-fix-the-wrong-task-mm-%3D%3D-mm-checks-in-oom_kill_process-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-oom_kill-fix-the-wrong-task-mm-%3D%3D-mm-checks-in-oom_kill_process-fix.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: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-oom_kill-fix-the-wrong-task-mm-==-mm-checks-in-oom_kill_process-fix document process_shares_mm() a bit Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kyle Walker <kwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stanislav Kozina <skozina@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom_kill-fix-the-wrong-task-mm-==-mm-checks-in-oom_kill_process-fix mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom_kill-fix-the-wrong-task-mm-==-mm-checks-in-oom_kill_process-fix +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -483,6 +483,12 @@ void oom_killer_enable(void) oom_killer_disabled = false; } +/* + * task->mm can be NULL if the task is the exited group leader. So to + * determine whether the task is using a particular mm, we examine all the + * task's threads: if one of those is using this mm then this task was also + * using it. + */ static bool process_shares_mm(struct task_struct *p, struct mm_struct *mm) { struct task_struct *t; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are arch-alpha-kernel-systblss-remove-debug-check.patch drivers-gpu-drm-i915-intel_spritec-fix-build.patch drivers-gpu-drm-i915-intel_tvc-fix-build.patch memcg-make-mem_cgroup_read_stat-unsigned-fix.patch drivers-input-joystick-kconfig-zhenhuac-needs-bitreverse.patch mm.patch slub-optimize-bulk-slowpath-free-by-detached-freelist-fix.patch uaccess-reimplement-probe_kernel_address-using-probe_kernel_read.patch uaccess-reimplement-probe_kernel_address-using-probe_kernel_read-fix.patch uaccess-reimplement-probe_kernel_address-using-probe_kernel_read-fix-fix.patch mm-page_alloc-rename-__gfp_wait-to-__gfp_reclaim-fix.patch mm-page_alloc-rename-__gfp_wait-to-__gfp_reclaim-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-page_alloc-only-enforce-watermarks-for-order-0-allocations-fix-fix.patch mm-fix-declarations-of-nr-delta-and-nr_pagecache_reclaimable-fix.patch mm-oom_kill-fix-the-wrong-task-mm-==-mm-checks-in-oom_kill_process-fix.patch kasan-various-fixes-in-documentation-checkpatch-fixes.patch zsmalloc-add-comments-for-inuse-to-zspage-v2-fix.patch page-flags-define-pg_locked-behavior-on-compound-pages-fix.patch x86-add-pmd_-for-thp-fix.patch sparc-add-pmd_-for-thp-fix.patch mm-support-madvisemadv_free-fix-2.patch mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called-fix-3.patch mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list-fix-fix.patch include-linux-compiler-gcch-improve-__visible-documentation.patch fs-jffs2-wbufc-remove-stray-semicolon.patch lib-documentation-synchronize-%p-formatting-documentation-fix-fix.patch dma-mapping-tidy-up-dma_parms-default-handling-fix.patch linux-next-rejects.patch net-ipv4-routec-prevent-oops.patch remove-abs64.patch remove-abs64-fix.patch do_shared_fault-check-that-mmap_sem-is-held.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch slab-leaks3-default-y.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