linux-kernel - [patch 3/5] x86: finish fault error path with fatal signal

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:25:02 -0400
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	azurIt <azurit@...ox.sk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups mailinglist <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	righi.andrea@...il.com
Subject: [patch 3/5] x86: finish fault error path with fatal signal

The x86 fault handler bails in the middle of error handling when the
task has been killed.  For the next patch this is a problem, because
it relies on pagefault_out_of_memory() being called even when the task
has been killed, to perform proper OOM state unwinding.

This is a rather minor optimization, just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 1cebabe..90248c9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -846,17 +846,6 @@ static noinline int
 mm_fault_error(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
 	       unsigned long address, unsigned int fault)
 {
-	/*
-	 * Pagefault was interrupted by SIGKILL. We have no reason to
-	 * continue pagefault.
-	 */
-	if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
-		if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY))
-			up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
-		if (!(error_code & PF_USER))
-			no_context(regs, error_code, address);
-		return 1;
-	}
 	if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR))
 		return 0;
 
-- 
1.8.3.2

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