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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 13:03:19 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] sched/wait: abort_exclusive_wait() should pass
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 02:44:53PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> And this reminds me... I still fail to understand why/how the commit
> 68985633bccb60 "sched/wait: Fix signal handling in bit wait helpers"
> can help. Apart from s/return 1/return -EINTR/. Peter, do you have any
> theory?

No, I was (and still am) completely puzzled by that one.