Michal Hocko wrote:
> Yes you are right! The reference count should be incremented before
> publishing the new mm_to_reap. I thought that an elevated ref. count by
> the caller would be enough but this was clearly wrong. Does the update
> below looks better?
I think that moving mmdrop() from oom_kill_process() to
oom_reap_vmas() xor wake_oom_reaper() makes the patch simpler.
rcu_read_unlock();
+ if (can_oom_reap)
+ wake_oom_reaper(mm); /* will call mmdrop() */
+ else
+ mmdrop(mm);
- mmdrop(mm);
put_task_struct(victim);
}
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