When a fs is frozen, a process can hang because we wait in uniterruptible state. We give the user the possibility to kill the process. Not-signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx> --- --- fs/super.c.orig 2013-03-24 09:56:33.000000000 +0100 +++ fs/super.c 2013-03-24 09:58:41.000000000 +0100 @@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ retry: if (unlikely(sb->s_writers.frozen >= level)) { if (!wait) return 0; - wait_event(sb->s_writers.wait_unfrozen, + wait_event_killable(sb->s_writers.wait_unfrozen, sb->s_writers.frozen < level); } @@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ static void sb_wait_write(struct super_b * of frozen and checking of the counter */ prepare_to_wait(&sb->s_writers.wait, &wait, - TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + TASK_KILLABLE); writers = percpu_counter_sum(&sb->s_writers.counter[level-1]); if (writers) -- 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