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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-10 09:25:29 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-10 09:25:29 +0200
commit8eb95f28f66b1a5461fdbcc9a1ee9068fb2cf2b6 (patch)
treee42d0e004b07f86d38de930fc163f3ca7d121f9c /kernel/exit.c
parentd7451fca18e2ec62641ae4bbfe946069f13765a3 (diff)
parent3fa8749e584b55f1180411ab1b51117190bac1e5 (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.27' into timers/hpet
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 16395644a98f..85a83c831856 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -583,8 +583,6 @@ mm_need_new_owner(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p)
* If there are other users of the mm and the owner (us) is exiting
* we need to find a new owner to take on the responsibility.
*/
- if (!mm)
- return 0;
if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) <= 1)
return 0;
if (mm->owner != p)
@@ -627,6 +625,16 @@ retry:
} while_each_thread(g, c);
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+ /*
+ * We found no owner yet mm_users > 1: this implies that we are
+ * most likely racing with swapoff (try_to_unuse()) or /proc or
+ * ptrace or page migration (get_task_mm()). Mark owner as NULL,
+ * so that subsystems can understand the callback and take action.
+ */
+ down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(mm->owner, NULL);
+ mm->owner = NULL;
+ up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
return;
assign_new_owner: