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Commit c4603801 authored by Konstantin Khlebnikov's avatar Konstantin Khlebnikov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/clear_refs

Do not remain stuck forever if something goes wrong.  Using a killable
lock permits cleanup of stuck tasks and simplifies investigation.

Replace the only unkillable mmap_sem lock in clear_refs_write().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156007493826.3335.5424884725467456239.stgit@buzz


Signed-off-by: default avatarKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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