From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756179Ab2BQA0G (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:26:06 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:39334 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752125Ab2BQA0E (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:26:04 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:26:02 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Oleg Nesterov 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: Re: [PATCH 0/4] make vfork() killable Message-Id: <20120216162602.386cadf9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20120216172626.GA30393@redhat.com> References: <20120214164709.GA21178@redhat.com> <20120214164914.GF21185@redhat.com> <20120215123049.6e938eed.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120216150429.GB11953@redhat.com> <20120216172626.GA30393@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:26 +0100 Oleg Nesterov wrote: > 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. hum. Via which tree did they get into linux-next and why did they not get any further?