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authorRabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@stericsson.com>2010-09-09 10:48:21 +0530
committerPraneeth Bajjuri <praneeth@ti.com>2011-09-19 22:13:38 -0700
commit1b6a57cf0c6b633be91b101203ec6cf29e8d6309 (patch)
tree4f1bda725f7f9ddc2318445df7d3ca70ab9df5a6 /drivers/staging
parent3b25f902dc8699ee3c20695c12569e63a0330df8 (diff)
lowmemorykiller: don't unregister notifier from atomic context
The lowmemorykiller registers an atomic notifier for notfication of when the task is freed. From this atomic notifier callback, it removes the atomic notifier via task_free_unregister(). This is incorrect because atomic_notifier_chain_unregister() calls syncronize_rcu(), which can sleep, which shouldn't be done from an atomic notifier. Fix this by registering the notifier during init, and only unregister it if the lowmemorykiller is unloaded. Change-Id: I1577b04e617bc2b2e39dcb490fcfc9ce660eb7ec Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Bejram <christian.bejram@stericsson.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
index 8b67ac06e4b..efbe556ba86 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@ static int
task_notify_func(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long val, void *data)
{
struct task_struct *task = data;
- if (task == lowmem_deathpending) {
+
+ if (task == lowmem_deathpending)
lowmem_deathpending = NULL;
- task_free_unregister(&task_nb);
- }
+
return NOTIFY_OK;
}
@@ -168,7 +168,6 @@ static int lowmem_shrink(struct shrinker *s, int nr_to_scan, gfp_t gfp_mask)
selected->pid, selected->comm,
selected_oom_adj, selected_tasksize);
lowmem_deathpending = selected;
- task_free_register(&task_nb);
force_sig(SIGKILL, selected);
rem -= selected_tasksize;
}
@@ -185,6 +184,7 @@ static struct shrinker lowmem_shrinker = {
static int __init lowmem_init(void)
{
+ task_free_register(&task_nb);
register_shrinker(&lowmem_shrinker);
return 0;
}
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ static int __init lowmem_init(void)
static void __exit lowmem_exit(void)
{
unregister_shrinker(&lowmem_shrinker);
+ task_free_unregister(&task_nb);
}
module_param_named(cost, lowmem_shrinker.seeks, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);