[PATCH] oom-kill: mm locking fix
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:20:38 +0000 (22:20 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:13:49 +0000 (09:13 -0700)
Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov> points out that badness() is playing with
mm_structs without taking a reference on them.

mmput() can sleep, so taking a reference here (inside tasklist_lock) is
hard.  Fix it up via task_lock() instead.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
mm/oom_kill.c

diff --cc mm/oom_kill.c
Simple merge