Hello, This series of patches add the ability to make mutex locks killable instead of uninterruptable.
This patch set builds on willys 5 patches for TASK_KILLABLE that are currently in mm (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/18/423 for more details). I have used 2.6.24-rc3 with the addition of willys patches. The first patch adds the mutex_lock_killable to the kernel/mutex.c and kernel/mutex.h. The second patch is a use of the mutex_lock_killable to fs/readdir.c to use the new mutex_lock_killable. This was enough for a small test application to be killable once the ethernet was pulled on an nfs mount (please note that this does not allow a normal ls to be killed yet). akpm: can you take these for merge in 2.6.25? A big thanks to Matthew for all the help on these patches. Please CC me on any responses. Thanks, Liam R. Howlett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
