On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:45:04 -0500 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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. > > ... > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__fatal_signal_pending); > No such export was needed in the patches which I added to -mm. So something changed between then and now. And going back through the mailing list all I can find is a series of five patches in October - it's unclear where and when the other 17 were reviewed, if they were. Sorry, but I don't think this work has been suitably reviewed and tested. -- 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/
