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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:22:43 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 03/13] GRU - dynamic allocation of kernel contexts
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On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:24:18 -0500
Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> wrote:

> +			mutex_unlock(&gts->ts_ctxlock);
> +			set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
>  			schedule_timeout(GRU_ASSIGN_DELAY);  /* true hack ZZZ */

OK...  But if the calling task has signal_pending(), the
schedule_timeout() will return immediately.

If that's a problem then perhaps use plain old msleep()?