On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:19:42 -0700 Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> A large number of these patches are jus
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:02:05PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> No such export was needed in the patches which I added to -mm. So
> something changed between then and now.
Not sure abouut that problem -- still on holiday, so just checking ym
mail quickly.
> And going back through the mailing li
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 12:54 +1100, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No need to make that one-liner function be a GPL-only export, it's not
> like any of the other regular sigpending functions are we export are
> GPL-only either (dequeue_signal() is, but that is because we *really*
> don't want people us
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:45:04 -0500 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 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_
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> Hmm... The current code won't compile as a module. We're at least going
> to require something like the attached patch.
Ahh, ok, I obviously only tested compiling it in.
No need to make that one-liner function be a GPL-only export, it's not
like
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:48 +1100, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 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_pendin
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(), s
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:41:24PM +1100, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > I'd like you to pull the task_killable branch of
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git
>
> Well, Andrew already pointed out some of this, but I do want
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> I'd like you to pull the task_killable branch of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git
Well, Andrew already pointed out some of this, but I do want more
information. There's a "git request-pull" script that even comes wit
Hi Linus,
I'd like you to pull the task_killable branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git
All the patches have been posted to linux-kernel before, and various
comments (and acks) have been taken into account.
Andrew's had the first fifteen patches (up to, and inclu
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