Commit 5870c2e1 authored by Michal Hocko's avatar Michal Hocko Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/oom_kill.c: fix task_will_free_mem() comment



Attempt to demystify the task_will_free_mem() loop.

Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 58fa2a55
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@@ -803,8 +803,9 @@ static bool task_will_free_mem(struct task_struct *task)
		return true;

	/*
	 * This is really pessimistic but we do not have any reliable way
	 * to check that external processes share with our mm
	 * Make sure that all tasks which share the mm with the given tasks
	 * are dying as well to make sure that a) nobody pins its mm and
	 * b) the task is also reapable by the oom reaper.
	 */
	rcu_read_lock();
	for_each_process(p) {