* Liam Howlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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).
nice patches!
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ingo
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