From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Liam Howlett <howlett@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@linux.intel.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/2] Kernel: mutex_lock_killable
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:52:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071204125239.GB31590@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68d904ba0711280552i4ee6637j47c7ee2f72a77661@mail.gmail.com>
* Liam Howlett <howlett@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This series of patches add the ability to make mutex locks killable
> instead of uninterruptable.
>
> This patch set builds on willys 5 patches for TASK_KILLABLE that are
> currently in mm (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/18/423 for more
> details). I have used 2.6.24-rc3 with the addition of willys patches.
>
> The first patch adds the mutex_lock_killable to the kernel/mutex.c and
> kernel/mutex.h.
>
> The second patch is a use of the mutex_lock_killable to fs/readdir.c
> to use the new mutex_lock_killable. This was enough for a small test
> application to be killable once the ethernet was pulled on an nfs
> mount (please note that this does not allow a normal ls to be killed
> yet).
nice patches!
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo
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