On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 03:18:52PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 05:04:21PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > 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(). > > Does that really happen? In some cases (namely user called ioctls) I'd > like to allow ctrl-c to interrupt a mutex_lock or other _interruptible > actions. I'd be very surprised if resizing terminal stops the command > I've just started. Resizing an xterm causes the xterm to send its child SIGWINCH. ctrl-c will cause fatal_signal_pending() to become true, and mutex_lock_killable to return -EINTR. mutex_lock_interruptible() will return -EINTR for any signal (SIGPOLL, SIGWINCH, etc).