Commit 12523bdc authored Mar 31, 2006 by Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Committed by Linus Torvalds Mar 31, 2006

[PATCH] uml: idle thread needn't take access to init_mm



Comparing this code which is the actual body of the arch-independent
cpu_idle(), it is clear that it's unnecessary to set ->mm and ->active_mm;
beyond that, a kernel thread is not supposed to have ->mm != NULL, only
active_mm.

This showed up because I used the assumption (which is IMHO valid) that kernel
thread have their ->mm == NULL, and it failed for this thread.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent e11c0cdf

arch/um/kernel/process_kern.c

+0 −4

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -185,10 +185,6 @@ void default_idle(void)
		{
		CHOOSE_MODE(uml_idle_timer(), (void) 0);

		atomic_inc(&init_mm.mm_count);
		current->mm = &init_mm;
		current->active_mm = &init_mm;

		while(1){
		/* endless idle loop with no priority at all */