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oom: do not take callback_mutex
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:25:58 +0000 (23:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:42:46 +0000 (08:42 -0700)
Since no task descriptor's 'cpuset' field is dereferenced in the execution of
the OOM killer anymore, it is no longer necessary to take callback_mutex.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore cpuset_lock for other patches]
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/oom_kill.c

index d9bba82923d5f70aa8d373afc128ed4e25e8121e..183a964ca61b0f01399851757110f09c4b434196 100644 (file)
@@ -463,7 +463,6 @@ void out_of_memory(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order)
         * NUMA) that may require different handling.
         */
        constraint = constrained_alloc(zonelist, gfp_mask);
-       cpuset_lock();
        read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 
        switch (constraint) {
@@ -495,7 +494,6 @@ retry:
                /* Found nothing?!?! Either we hang forever, or we panic. */
                if (!p) {
                        read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
-                       cpuset_unlock();
                        panic("Out of memory and no killable processes...\n");
                }
 
@@ -508,7 +506,6 @@ retry:
 
 out:
        read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
-       cpuset_unlock();
 
        /*
         * Give "p" a good chance of killing itself before we