On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 03:16:22PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 29-02-16 17:04:16, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > [...] > > > Most of the patches are really trivial because the lock is help from a > > > shallow syscall paths where we can return EINTR trivially. Others seem > > > to be easy as well as the callers are already handling fatal errors and > > > bail and return to userspace which should be sufficient to handle the > > > failure gracefully. I am not familiar with all those code paths so a > > > deeper review is really appreciated. > > > > What about effect on userspace? IIUC, we would have now EINTR returned > > from bunch of syscall, which haven't had this errno on the table before. > > Should we care? > > Those function will return EINTR only when the current was _killed_ when > we do not return to the userspace. So there shouldn't be any visible > effect. Ah. I confused killable with interruptible. -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
