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Andrew Morton wrote:
> It will still be a busy loop if this task has a signal pending. 
> TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE may be more appropriate...


Agreed.  Same reason you want to use down() instead of 
down_interruptible(), when using a semaphore to wait on some hardware 
condition.

	Jeff