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mm: oom_kill: remove unnecessary locking in exit_oom_victim()
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:57:16 +0000 (16:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:49:43 +0000 (17:49 -0700)
commitd2ab34e167c2ed7f2d04cfe26bfc521a57dd7d32
tree4c63aacddd164b79da44f78619d077189a2177a3
parenteaf000e178265b73b5b5c6e82f9682e3afa8d958
mm: oom_kill: remove unnecessary locking in exit_oom_victim()

Disabling the OOM killer needs to exclude allocators from entering, not
existing victims from exiting.

Right now the only waiter is suspend code, which achieves quiescence by
disabling the OOM killer.  But later on we want to add waits that hold
the lock instead to stop new victims from showing up.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/oom_kill.c