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Re: [PATCH] proc_oom_score: remove tasklist_lock and pid_alive()

From David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] proc_oom_score: remove tasklist_lock and pid_alive()
Date 2016-06-09 00:50 +0200
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> This was needed before to ensure that ->signal != 0 and do_each_thread()
> is safe, see the commit b95c35e76b29b for details.
> 
> Today tsk->signal can't go away and for_each_thread(tsk) is always safe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

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[PATCH] proc_oom_score: remove tasklist_lock and pid_alive() Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-08 23:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] proc_oom_score: remove tasklist_lock and pid_alive() David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2016-06-09 00:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] proc_oom_score: remove tasklist_lock and pid_alive() Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-06-09 08:50 +0200

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