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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
	"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@suse.de>,
	"San Mehat" <san@google.com>, "Colin Cross" <ccross@android.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com,
	linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] procfs: Export next_tgid(), move it to kernel/pid.c
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:43:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120130134312.GA14110@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120130011323.GA30274@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru>

On 01/30, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>
> We'd like to use this function in the android low memory killer driver, so
> let's export it.

I guess you mean 3/3.

If lowmem_shrink() can use next_tid() which is not really accurate,
then why tou can't simply change it to use rcu_read_lock ?

Oleg.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-30 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-30  1:13 [PATCH 1/3] procfs: Export next_tgid(), move it to kernel/pid.c Anton Vorontsov
2012-01-30  2:22 ` Greg KH
2012-01-30 19:50   ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-01-30  3:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-30 19:51   ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-01-30 13:43 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2012-01-30 20:49   ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-01-31  1:51     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01  4:19       ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-02-01  4:37         ` Eric W. Biederman

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