[patch -mm 6/6] oom: improve commentary in dump_tasks()

[David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>]

The comments in dump_tasks() should be updated to be more clear about why
tasks are filtered and how they are filtered by its argument.

An unnecessary comment concerning a check for is_global_init() is removed
since it isn't of importance.

Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
---
 mm/oom_kill.c |   11 +++--------
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints,
 
 /**
  * dump_tasks - dump current memory state of all system tasks
- * @mem: target memory controller
+ * @mem: current's memory controller, if constrained
  *
  * Dumps the current memory state of all system tasks, excluding kernel threads.
  * State information includes task's pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, cpu, oom_adj
@@ -370,11 +370,6 @@ static void dump_tasks(const struct mem_cgroup *mem)
 	printk(KERN_INFO "[ pid ]   uid  tgid total_vm      rss cpu oom_adj "
 	       "name\n");
 	for_each_process(p) {
-		/*
-		 * We don't have is_global_init() check here, because the old
-		 * code do that. printing init process is not big matter. But
-		 * we don't hope to make unnecessary compatibility breaking.
-		 */
 		if (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
 			continue;
 		if (mem && !task_in_mem_cgroup(p, mem))
@@ -383,8 +378,8 @@ static void dump_tasks(const struct mem_cgroup *mem)
 		task = find_lock_task_mm(p);
 		if (!task) {
 			/*
-			 * Probably oom vs task-exiting race was happen and ->mm
-			 * have been detached. thus there's no need to report
+			 * This is a kthread or all of p's threads have already
+			 * detached their mm's.  There's no need to report 
 			 * them; they can't be oom killed anyway.
 			 */
 			continue;

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