linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/7] sched: Update task_tick

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Date:   Wed, 11 May 2022 10:42:21 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/7] sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without
 an mm

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:37 AM Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>
> With the change to init and the user mode helper processes to not have
> PF_KTHREAD set before they call kernel_execve the PF_KTHREAD test in
> task_tick_numa became insufficient to detect all tasks that have
> "->mm == NULL".  Correct that by testing for "->mm == NULL" directly.

If you end up rebasing at any time for other reasons (I didn't even
check if you keep this series in a public git branch), please just
fold this fix into the original commit, so that we don't have
unnecessary bisection issues.

               Linus