On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:48 +1100, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > To allow tasks to be interrupted by fatal signals, we introduce a new > > TASK_* bit; TASK_WAKEKILL. We also add a predicate fatal_signal_pending; > > the counterpart of signal_pending(). Then we add killable versions > > of lock_page(), mutex_lock(), schedule_timeout(), wait_event(), and > > wait_for_completion(). Finally, we can make the NFS 'intr' mount option > > a no-op. > > Ok, I've pulled this. It conflicted with some NFS changes, but I did what > appeared to be the obvious conflict resolution, and it all at least > compiles and it looked sane to me. But I don't have NFS enabled normally, > and I certainly don't have a good way to test with my laptop while in > Melbourne, so Trond/Matthew, can you please double- and triple-check my > merge?
Hmm... The current code won't compile as a module. We're at least going to require something like the attached patch. Cheers Trond
--- Begin Message ---It may be used by the modules nfs.ko and sunrpc.ko Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/signal.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 8054dd4..1f2d4e1 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -998,6 +998,7 @@ int fastcall __fatal_signal_pending(struct task_struct *tsk) { return sigismember(&tsk->pending.signal, SIGKILL); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__fatal_signal_pending); /* * Must be called under rcu_read_lock() or with tasklist_lock read-held.
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