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Re: [PATCH] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable

From Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable
Date 2016-02-29 19:20 +0100
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On 02/29, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> @@ -1027,11 +1027,15 @@ static ssize_t clear_refs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
>  		};
>
>  		if (type == CLEAR_REFS_MM_HIWATER_RSS) {
> +			if (down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem)) {
> +				count = -EINTR;
> +				goto out_mm;
> +			}
> +

We do not even need to change count, userspace won't see it anyway. But I agree
it look more clean this way.

I believe the patch is fine.

Oleg.

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[PATCH 07/18] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-02-29 14:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 07/18] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2016-02-29 14:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 07/18] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-02-29 18:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 07/18] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-02-29 19:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 07/18] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-02-29 19:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 07/18] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-02-29 19:10 +0100
  [PATCH] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-02-29 19:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-02-29 19:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2016-02-29 21:30 +0100

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