mempolicy: remove the "task" arg of vma_policy_mof() and simplify it
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Thu, 9 Oct 2014 22:27:48 +0000 (15:27 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:25:56 +0000 (22:25 -0400)
commit6b6482bbf64ef6f6dbc8b52f7a7cf88a0498bd51
tree026e6f1a304c6a9f4da4462427e21fa3178fddfa
parent8d90274b3b118c9babeefb1302947f33a1364fb5
mempolicy: remove the "task" arg of vma_policy_mof() and simplify it

1. vma_policy_mof(task) is simply not safe unless task == current,
   it can race with do_exit()->mpol_put(). Remove this arg and update
   its single caller.

2. vma can not be NULL, remove this check and simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mempolicy.h
kernel/sched/fair.c
mm/mempolicy.c