Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:15:29 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core) |
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:00:31AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Yet those don't appear in the tasklist, so some task in the tasklist > has to get ->mm set to &init_mm. The notion above was that the init_mm > check was to handle some out-of-tree attempt to do aio from kernel threads.
Not sure to understand correctly but, aio has always been done through kernel threads, and that's the whole thing about aio. Not sure what you're doing out-of-tree, but you don't need to use init_mm to deal with kernel threads, infact kernel threads can only have ->mm = NULL. When switching mm with use_mm the aio thread is only going to use a real mm with mappings in userspace, so even in that case you don't need init_mm. I didn't see the out of tree code though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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