From: Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coredump: Retry writes where appropriate
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:31:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245778278.9022.21.camel@psmith-ubeta.netezza.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090604171458.F0DC7FC3C3@magilla.sf.frob.com>
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 10:14 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Fortunately, this doesn't look hard. Whatever we do, we should modify
> > dump_write/seek to check fatal_signal_pending() anyway. Because we can't
> > know if f_ops->write() pays attention to signals.
>
> Yes, that sounds fine.
>
> > This means we can just add try_to_freeze().
>
> Right.
>
> > As for exit_mm(), we can use freezer_do_not_count() + freezer_count()
> > around the "for (;;)" loop.
>
> Ah yes, sure.
Hi Oleg;
Did you have any more time to look into this? I'm currently using my
patch and it's OK for my purposes but I'll be happy to test any proposal
you come up with, if you like, so I can drop my patch in the future.
Let me know, thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-23 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-31 5:33 Paul Smith
2009-05-31 10:18 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-31 14:03 ` Olivier Galibert
2009-05-31 16:31 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-31 16:49 ` Olivier Galibert
2009-05-31 17:46 ` Paul Smith
2009-05-31 16:56 ` Paul Smith
2009-06-01 16:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-01 16:41 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 17:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-01 17:46 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 18:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-01 20:38 ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-01 22:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-01 23:02 ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-02 0:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-03 7:09 ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-04 3:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-04 17:14 ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-23 17:31 ` Paul Smith [this message]
2009-06-23 19:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-07 19:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-02 8:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-02 15:29 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-03 7:15 ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-03 14:05 ` Paul Smith
2009-06-01 17:36 ` Paul Smith
2009-06-01 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 18:39 ` Paul Smith
2009-06-01 19:02 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 19:09 ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-01 19:06 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 19:14 ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-01 19:51 ` Paul Smith
2009-06-01 20:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-01 21:34 ` Alan Cox
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