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From: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] dlm updates for 5.3
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:30:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190711143013.GA29395@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wj00gDz=tX-b5C-xwdogZSaKtRJEDh3SGB69D8W+Wsr2Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:05:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> If wait_event_interruptible() returns -ERESTARTSYS, it means that we
> have a signal pending.
> 
> And if we have a signal pending, then you can't go back and call
> wait_event_interruptible() in a loop, because the signal will
> *continue* to be pending, so now your "wait event" becomes a kernel
> busy loop.
> 
> If you don't want to react to signals, then you shouldn't use the
> "interruptible()" version of wait-event.

Right, a simple wait_event looks obvious; I'll have the submitters test
that before sending that next time around.  I'll put together another pull
with the two trivial commits.
Thanks
Dave

      reply	other threads:[~2019-07-11 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-09 16:57 [GIT PULL] dlm updates for 5.3 David Teigland
2019-07-11  4:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-07-11 14:30   ` David Teigland [this message]

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