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authorSan Mehat <san@google.com>2010-05-06 15:40:07 -0700
committerGary King <gking@nvidia.com>2010-05-23 14:43:12 -0700
commit8cbfd03d49c20cbc7f4a0c02dec8f0aa9edc31a2 (patch)
tree663341a00b1c4bf7b33e274172f5e9641ccf0998 /drivers
parentb6cd3d7da6fb112fd790777cbb20b42c4e6dfb16 (diff)
staging: android: lowmemorykiller: Fix task_struct leak
As it turns out, the CONFIG_PROFILING interfaces leak a task struct if the notifier chain returns NOTIFY_OK.. doh. This patch reworks lowmemkiller to use the new generic task free notifier chain. Signed-off-by: San Mehat <san@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c14
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
index 4523093767d4..1204ee0bdf72 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/oom.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
-#include <linux/profile.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
static uint32_t lowmem_debug_level = 2;
@@ -74,7 +73,7 @@ task_notify_func(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long val, void *data)
struct task_struct *task = data;
if (task == lowmem_deathpending) {
lowmem_deathpending = NULL;
- task_handoff_unregister(&task_nb);
+ task_free_unregister(&task_nb);
}
return NOTIFY_OK;
}
@@ -99,8 +98,6 @@ static int lowmem_shrink(int nr_to_scan, gfp_t gfp_mask)
* that we have nothing further to offer on
* this pass.
*
- * Note: Currently you need CONFIG_PROFILING
- * for this to work correctly.
*/
if (lowmem_deathpending)
return 0;
@@ -176,15 +173,8 @@ static int lowmem_shrink(int nr_to_scan, gfp_t gfp_mask)
lowmem_print(1, "send sigkill to %d (%s), adj %d, size %d\n",
selected->pid, selected->comm,
selected_oom_adj, selected_tasksize);
- /*
- * If CONFIG_PROFILING is off, then task_handoff_register()
- * is a nop. In that case we don't want to stall the killer
- * by setting lowmem_deathpending.
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROFILING
lowmem_deathpending = selected;
- task_handoff_register(&task_nb);
-#endif
+ task_free_register(&task_nb);
force_sig(SIGKILL, selected);
rem -= selected_tasksize;
}