On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think the right choice might be to > > (a) revert that patch (or just change the signal_pending() into > fatal_signal_pending()) > > (b) to get the latency advantage, do something like this: The attached patch is actually tested and seems to fix the issue. I do not have a good way to check the latency of signal delivery and I didn't check if the signal_pending() actually ever triggers, but your test-case that showed the problem before seems to be fine with it. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html