From: Uli Luckas <u.luckas@road.de>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jffs2_gcd_mtd3, Stopping kernel threads timed out
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:59:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706291059.30383.u.luckas@road.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183105708.1170.223.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
On Friday, 29. June 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 10:24 +0200, Uli Luckas wrote:
> > But then again, my patch was more complex for a reason :-) How does your
> > patch handle the situation, where try_to_freeze returns true _and_ there
> > is a pending SIGHUP?
>
> It'll go back to the beginning of the loop, then if it _does_ take the
> !thread_should_wake() path it'll be woken immediately by the pending
> SIGHUP, and it'll do one GC pass as intended.
>
Hi David,
Thanks for your explanation. You are obviously right.
I missed the point where a pending signal keeps wakeing INTERRUPTIBLE tasks
until it is handled.
regards,
Uli
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-29 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-14 13:09 [PATCH] jffs2_gcd_mtd3, Stopping kernel threads timed out Uli Luckas
2007-06-19 9:49 ` Uli Luckas
2007-06-26 13:06 ` Uli Luckas
2007-06-26 13:19 ` Josh Boyer
2007-06-26 15:34 ` Uli Luckas
[not found] ` <200706261639.49486.u.luckas@road.de>
2007-06-26 15:36 ` [PATCH][update] " Josh Boyer
2007-06-27 7:53 ` Uli Luckas
2007-06-28 18:52 ` [PATCH] " David Woodhouse
2007-06-29 8:24 ` Uli Luckas
2007-06-29 8:28 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-29 8:59 ` Uli Luckas [this message]
2007-07-24 7:35 ` Uli Luckas
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2007-06-12 12:58 Uli Luckas
2007-06-12 12:13 Uli Luckas
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