Re: [PATCH 2/2] loop: use interruptible lock in ioctls

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On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 04:16:26PM -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> Even after the previous patch to drop lo_ctl_mutex while calling
> vfs_getattr(), there are other cases where we can end up sleeping for a
> long time while holding lo_ctl_mutex. Let's avoid the uninterruptible
> sleep from the ioctls.

Umm ... you want these ioctls to return -EINTR just because you resized
an xterm?  I think you really meant mutex_lock_killable().




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