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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-10-11 21:39:35 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-10-11 21:39:35 +0200
commit56c5d900dbb8e042bfad035d18433476931d8f93 (patch)
tree00b793965beeef10db03e0ff021d2d965c410759 /kernel/exit.c
parentleo: disable cursor when leaving graphics mode (diff)
parentMerge phase #4 (X2APIC, APIC unification, CPU identification unification) of ... (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts: sound/core/memalloc.c
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: