mm, oom: remove task_lock protecting comm printing
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Fri, 6 Nov 2015 02:48:05 +0000 (18:48 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 6 Nov 2015 03:34:48 +0000 (19:34 -0800)
commitda39da3a54fed88e29024f2f1f6cd7357cd03a44
treeca4bbdc90d4f7e3cf2e7258135380b6b4b0f5fc6
parent2d1e10412c2388ff9b6afc60536eaa195a419289
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@google.com>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/cpuset.h
kernel/cpuset.c
mm/oom_kill.c