On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 03:53:28PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > If the kiocb has been cancelled, this code ensures that the helper thread > has received the SIGSEGV. This ensures that the signal can then be flushed > by flush_signals(). If the kiocb has not been cancelled, it can no longer > be cancelled after the cmpxchg() has executed. Whoops, SIGSEGV will certainly need special handling. The cancel code should really be using SIGKILL. I will add that to the list of things to fix. -ben -- "Thought is the essence of where you are now." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html