Re: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks

Ingo Molnar
2007-12-02T20:09:29Z

* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> > TASK_KILLABLE should be the right solution i think.
>
> .. and it's even a tool to show where we missed making something
> TASK_KILLABLE... anything that triggers from NFS and the like really
> ought to be TASK_KILLABLE after all. This patch will point any
> omissions out quite nicely without having to do any kind of
> destructive testing.

yeah, exactly. Having something "hard blocked" for a long amount of time
is rarely a good thing.

Ingo