[PATCH 4/8] mm/memory-failure: convert process iterator to for_each_process_rcu

From: Ye Liu

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 04:34:16 EST


From: Ye Liu <liuye@xxxxxxxxxx>

Replace the manual rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs combined
with for_each_process() loop in mm/memory-failure.c with
for_each_process_rcu().

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory-failure.c | 16 ++++------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index a8b03e2920ba..63a2ff08ee33 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -555,8 +555,7 @@ static void collect_procs_anon(const struct folio *folio,
return;

pgoff = page_pgoff(folio, page);
- rcu_read_lock();
- for_each_process(tsk) {
+ for_each_process_rcu(tsk) {
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
struct anon_vma_chain *vmac;
struct task_struct *t = task_early_kill(tsk, force_early);
@@ -572,7 +571,6 @@ static void collect_procs_anon(const struct folio *folio,
add_to_kill_anon_file(t, page, vma, to_kill, addr);
}
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
anon_vma_unlock_read(av);
}

@@ -589,9 +587,8 @@ static void collect_procs_file(const struct folio *folio,
pgoff_t pgoff;

i_mmap_lock_read(mapping);
- rcu_read_lock();
pgoff = page_pgoff(folio, page);
- for_each_process(tsk) {
+ for_each_process_rcu(tsk) {
struct task_struct *t = task_early_kill(tsk, force_early);
unsigned long addr;

@@ -611,7 +608,6 @@ static void collect_procs_file(const struct folio *folio,
add_to_kill_anon_file(t, page, vma, to_kill, addr);
}
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping);
}

@@ -635,8 +631,7 @@ static void collect_procs_fsdax(const struct page *page,
struct task_struct *tsk;

i_mmap_lock_read(mapping);
- rcu_read_lock();
- for_each_process(tsk) {
+ for_each_process_rcu(tsk) {
struct task_struct *t = tsk;

/*
@@ -653,7 +648,6 @@ static void collect_procs_fsdax(const struct page *page,
add_to_kill_fsdax(t, page, vma, to_kill, pgoff);
}
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_FS_DAX */
@@ -2288,8 +2282,7 @@ static void collect_procs_pfn(struct pfn_address_space *pfn_space,
struct address_space *mapping = pfn_space->mapping;

i_mmap_lock_read(mapping);
- rcu_read_lock();
- for_each_process(tsk) {
+ for_each_process_rcu(tsk) {
struct task_struct *t = tsk;

t = task_early_kill(tsk, true);
@@ -2303,7 +2296,6 @@ static void collect_procs_pfn(struct pfn_address_space *pfn_space,
add_to_kill_pgoff(t, vma, to_kill, pgoff);
}
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping);
}

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