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From: "Liam Howlett" <howlett@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: willy@linux.intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: [Patch 0/2] Kernel: mutex_lock_killable
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:52:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <68d904ba0711280552i4ee6637j47c7ee2f72a77661@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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).

akpm: can you take these for merge in 2.6.25?

A big thanks to Matthew for all the help on these patches.
Please CC me on any responses.

Thanks,
Liam R. Howlett

             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-28 13:52 Liam Howlett [this message]
2007-12-04 12:52 ` Ingo Molnar

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