From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>,
Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/12] introduce down_write_killable for rw_semaphore
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:24:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160310102412.GA21593@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160309144140.GJ27018@dhcp22.suse.cz>
* Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > Why? Each syscall already is killable as the task might be killed by the OOM
> > > killer.
> >
> > Not all syscalls are interruptible - for example sys_sync() isn't:
>
> I guess we are talking past each other. [...]
Heh, you are being polite, I think what happened is that I was being dense and
didn't understand your point:
> [...] What I meant was that while all syscalls are allowed to not return to the
> userspace because the task might get killed but not all of them accept to get
> interrupted by a signal and return with EINTR. None of the man page of mmap,
> mremap, mlock, mprotect list EINTR as a possibility so I would be really afraid
> of returning an unexpected error code.
Indeed.
> Does this make more sense now?
It does!
Thanks,
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-10 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-02 20:19 [RFC 0/12] introduce down_write_killable for rw_semaphore Michal Hocko
2016-02-02 20:19 ` [RFC 01/12] locking, rwsem: get rid of __down_write_nested Michal Hocko
2016-02-02 20:19 ` [RFC 02/12] locking, rwsem: drop explicit memory barriers Michal Hocko
2016-02-02 20:19 ` [RFC 03/12] locking, rwsem: introduce basis for down_write_killable Michal Hocko
2016-02-02 20:19 ` [RFC 04/12] alpha, rwsem: provide __down_write_killable Michal Hocko
2016-02-02 20:19 ` [RFC 05/12] ia64, " Michal Hocko
2016-02-02 20:19 ` [RFC 06/12] s390, " Michal Hocko
2016-02-02 20:19 ` [RFC 07/12] sh, " Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 11:19 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-02-03 12:11 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-02 20:19 ` [RFC 08/12] sparc, " Michal Hocko
2016-02-02 20:19 ` [RFC 09/12] xtensa, " Michal Hocko
2016-02-02 20:19 ` [RFC 10/12] x86, rwsem: simplify __down_write Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 8:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-02-03 12:10 ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-03 16:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-03 22:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-09 14:40 ` David Howells
2016-06-09 17:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-10 16:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-02-02 20:19 ` [RFC 11/12] x86, rwsem: provide __down_write_killable Michal Hocko
2016-02-17 16:41 ` [RFC 11/12 v1] " Michal Hocko
2016-02-02 20:19 ` [RFC 12/12] locking, rwsem: provide down_write_killable Michal Hocko
2016-02-19 12:15 ` [RFC 0/12] introduce down_write_killable for rw_semaphore Michal Hocko
2016-03-09 12:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-09 12:56 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-09 13:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-09 13:28 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-09 13:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-09 14:41 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-10 10:24 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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