Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:55:04 +0100 | | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core) |
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 09:43:36AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Well, the only way I see this happening is the process exiting followed > by use_mm() on init_mm for unobvious reasons (perhaps reasons not in > the tree).
I don't see the problem with use_mm. use_mm has either the mm set to ctx->mm or to NULL, and ctx->mm is set to the mm of the process calling io_setup.
The only thing using init_mm is the idle task/swapper as far as I can tell, kernel threads and exiting tasks have a NULL mm. - 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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