From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754468Ab2BPSRy (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:17:54 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:26609 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754324Ab2BPSRs (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:17:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:26 +0100 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Andrew Morton Cc: apw@canonical.com, arjan@linux.intel.com, fhrbata@redhat.com, john.johansen@canonical.com, penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp, rientjes@google.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, tj@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/4] make vfork() killable Message-ID: <20120216172626.GA30393@redhat.com> References: <20120214164709.GA21178@redhat.com> <20120214164914.GF21185@redhat.com> <20120215123049.6e938eed.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120216150429.GB11953@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120216150429.GB11953@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/16, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > Btw, there is another example of "unbounded" sleep in UNINTERRUPTIBLE, > vfork. I already have the patches, will send today. Make vfork() killable, please apply. These patches are old (Aug 2011), they spent a lot of time in linux-next without any problem. Linus participated in the discussion, iiuc he has no objections. The next step is make vfork() stoppable/traceable. Oleg.