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Konstantin Khlebnikov
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This function is used by ptrace and proc files like /proc/pid/cmdline and /proc/pid/environ. Access_remote_vm never returns error codes, all errors are ignored and only size of successfully read data is returned. So, if current task was killed we'll simply return 0 (bytes read). Mmap_sem could be locked for a long time or forever if something goes wrong. Using a killable lock permits cleanup of stuck tasks and simplifies investigation. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156007494202.3335.16782303099589302087.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.