From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] fsfreeze: from uninterruptible to killable waiting
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 16:22:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130406152247.GJ4068@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <515FF2D4.2050307@gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 12:03:00PM +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> with this patch series we try to change the fs freeze behavior in order
> to sleep in a killable state instead of sleeping in uninterruptible
> state. The patches are *NOT* tested because but a first review is welcome.
> The design is simply:
>
> 1) Internal fs operations are not changed from fsfreeze point of view,
> sb_start_intwrite is not changed;
>
> 2) sb_start_write and sb_start_pagefault now return a proper error code
> if the process receive SIGKILL and all the functions must manage this
> error and return EINTR or VM_FAULT_RETRY.
sb_start_write() is done _way_ too deep in the call chain in the mainline;
check the changes in -next, please.
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2013-04-06 10:03 [PATCH 0/4] fsfreeze: from uninterruptible to killable waiting Marco Stornelli
2013-04-06 15:22 ` Al Viro [this message]
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