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Paul Jackson 505970b96e [PATCH] cpuset oom lock fix 
The problem, reported in:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5859

and by various other email messages and lkml posts is that the cpuset hook
in the oom (out of memory) code can try to take a cpuset semaphore while
holding the tasklist_lock (a spinlock).

One must not sleep while holding a spinlock.

The fix seems easy enough - move the cpuset semaphore region outside the
tasklist_lock region.

This required a few lines of mechanism to implement.  The oom code where
the locking needs to be changed does not have access to the cpuset locks,
which are internal to kernel/cpuset.c only.  So I provided a couple more
cpuset interface routines, available to the rest of the kernel, which
simple take and drop the lock needed here (cpusets callback_sem).

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:10 -08:00
..
bootmem.c [PATCH] FRV: Clean up bootmem allocator's page freeing algorithm 2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] fadvise: return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe 2006-01-08 20:14:00 -08:00
filemap_xip.c [PATCH] replace inode_update_time with file_update_time 2006-01-10 08:01:30 -08:00
filemap.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
filemap.h
fremap.c VM: add common helper function to create the page tables 2005-11-29 14:03:14 -08:00
highmem.c [PATCH] gfp_t: the rest 2005-10-28 08:16:51 -07:00
hugetlb.c [PATCH] mm: make hugepages obey cpusets. 2006-01-08 20:12:43 -08:00
internal.h [PATCH] FRV: Clean up bootmem allocator's page freeing algorithm 2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
Kconfig [PATCH] Swap Migration V5: Add CONFIG_MIGRATION for page migration support 2006-01-08 20:12:41 -08:00
madvise.c [PATCH] madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing store 2006-01-06 08:33:22 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator 2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c [PATCH] memhotplug: __add_section remove unused pgdat definition 2006-01-06 08:33:21 -08:00
memory.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
mempolicy.c [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies 2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
mempool.c [PATCH] gfp_t: mm/* (easy parts) 2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
mincore.c
mlock.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
mmap.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] unpaged: private write VM_RESERVED 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
mremap.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
msync.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
nommu.c [PATCH] NOMMU: Make SYSV IPC SHM use ramfs facilities on NOMMU 2006-01-06 08:33:32 -08:00
oom_kill.c [PATCH] cpuset oom lock fix 2006-01-14 18:27:10 -08:00
page_alloc.c [PATCH] memmap_init_zone(): remove uneccesary page++ 2006-01-12 09:08:49 -08:00
page_io.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
page-writeback.c identify multipage ->writepages() calls 2006-01-06 14:58:38 -05:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] Swap Migration V5: PF_SWAPWRITE to allow writing to swap 2006-01-08 20:12:41 -08:00
prio_tree.c
readahead.c [PATCH] add AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE, prepend AOP_ to WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE 2006-01-03 11:45:42 -08:00
rmap.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
shmem.c [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies 2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
slab.c [PATCH] fix/simplify mutex debugging code 2006-01-11 08:14:16 -08:00
slob.c [PATCH] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator 2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
sparse.c [PATCH] Change maxaligned_in_smp alignemnt macros to internodealigned_in_smp macros 2006-01-08 20:13:38 -08:00
swap_state.c [PATCH] SwapMig: add_to_swap() avoid atomic allocations 2006-01-08 20:12:42 -08:00
swap.c [XFS] Export pagevec_lookup for use on the XFS page writeout path, 2006-01-11 20:47:41 +11:00
swapfile.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
thrash.c [PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressure 2005-11-28 14:42:25 -08:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] do_truncate() call fix in tiny-shmem.c 2006-01-12 09:08:49 -08:00
truncate.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
util.c [PATCH] slob: introduce mm/util.c for shared functions 2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
vmalloc.c [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix warnings in vmalloc.c 2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
vmscan.c [PATCH] SwapMig: Switch error handling in migrate_pages to use -Exx 2006-01-08 20:12:42 -08:00