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Commit 2a22b773 authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Andrew Morton
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memcg: mm_update_next_owner: kill the "retry" logic

Add the new helper, try_to_set_owner(), which tries to update mm->owner
once we see c->mm == mm.  This way mm_update_next_owner() doesn't need to
restart the list_for_each_entry/for_each_process loops from the very
beginning if it races with exit/exec, it can just continue.

Unlike the current code, try_to_set_owner() re-checks tsk->mm == mm before
it drops tasklist_lock, so it doesn't need get/put_task_struct().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626152924.GA17933@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jinliang Zheng <alexjlzheng@tencent.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1419ff98
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