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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)
commitf8082580bdaf8c14f9aff07c80f0ded0cf4324c9
tree4c63aacddd164b79da44f78619d077189a2177a3
parentd66f94e4544581cba1bb80bdfb720aedde0fcb86
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