From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx106.postini.com [74.125.245.106]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC90E6B0071 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:46:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by dakp5 with SMTP id p5so2233057dak.14 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:46:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:46:08 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] memcg: kmem controller infrastructure In-Reply-To: <4FEAD351.2030203@parallels.com> Message-ID: References: <1340633728-12785-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1340633728-12785-7-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <4FE97E31.3010201@parallels.com> <4FEAD351.2030203@parallels.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Glauber Costa Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Frederic Weisbecker , Pekka Enberg , Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , Christoph Lameter , devel@openvz.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Tejun Heo , Pekka Enberg On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > > > Nothing, but I also don't see how to prevent that. > > > > You can test for current->flags & PF_KTHREAD following the check for > > in_interrupt() and return true, it's what you were trying to do with the > > check for !current->mm. > > > > am I right to believe that if not in interrupt context - already ruled out - > and !(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD), I am guaranteed to have a mm context, and > thus, don't need to test against it ? > No, because an mm may have been detached in the exit path by running exit_mm(). We'd certainly hope that there are no slab allocations following that point, though, but you'd still need to test current->mm. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org