On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:31:10PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So I do agree that we probably have *too* many of the stupid "let's > check if we can freeze", and I suspect that the NFS code should get > rid of the "freezable_schedule()" that is causing this warning > (because I also agree that you should *not* freeze while holding > locks, because it really can cause deadlocks), but I do suspect that > network filesystems do need to have a few places where they check for > freezing on their own... Exactly because freezing isn't *quite* like a > signal.
Well, I don't really know much about nfs so I can't really tell, but for most other cases, dealing with freezing like a signal should work fine from what I've seen although I can't be sure before actually trying. Trond, Bruce, can you guys please chime in? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
