1. 08 Jun, 2012 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Revert "mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec" · 48d212a2
      Linus Torvalds authored
      This reverts commit 40af1bbd.
      
      It's horribly and utterly broken for at least the following reasons:
      
       - calling sync_mm_rss() from mmput() is fundamentally wrong, because
         there's absolutely no reason to believe that the task that does the
         mmput() always does it on its own VM.  Example: fork, ptrace, /proc -
         you name it.
      
       - calling it *after* having done mmdrop() on it is doubly insane, since
         the mm struct may well be gone now.
      
       - testing mm against NULL before you call it is insane too, since a
      NULL mm there would have caused oopses long before.
      
      .. and those are just the three bugs I found before I decided to give up
      looking for me and revert it asap.  I should have caught it before I
      even took it, but I trusted Andrew too much.
      
      Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
      Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      48d212a2
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