Re: [PATCH] sched/numa: kill the wrong/dead TASK_DEAD check in task_numa_fault()

[Mel Gorman]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 09:47:43PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> current->state == TASK_DEAD means that the task is doing its last
> schedule(), page fault is obviously impossible at this stage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

I was going to complain that the check would protect against a spurious
allocation during fault but a task in this state should not be faulting
any more.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

Thanks.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/