Hi! > TASK_KILLABLE is often used to put tasks to sleep for quite some time. > One of the most common uses is to put tasks to sleep while waiting for > replies from a server on a networked filesystem (such as CIFS or NFS). > > Unfortunately, fake_signal_wake_up does not currently wake up tasks > that are sleeping in TASK_KILLABLE state. This means that even if the > code were in place to allow them to freeze while in this sleep, it > wouldn't work anyway. > > This patch changes this function to wake tasks in this state as well. > This should be harmless -- if the code doing the sleeping doesn't have > handling to deal with freezer events, it should just go back to sleep. I'm pretty sure this will break something; but that does not mean it is bad idea, just that it should be merged early and tested a lot. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
