Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Replacing TASK_(UN)INTERRUPTIBLE with regions of uninterruptibility

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On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 09:51, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have various locks, mutexes, etc., that are taken on entry to filesystem
> code, for example, and a bunch of them are taken interruptibly or killably (or
> ought to be) - but filesystem code might be called into from uninterruptible
> code, such as the memory allocator, fscache, etc..

Are you suggesting to make lots more filesystem/vfs/mm sleeps
killable?  That would present problems with being called from certain
contexts.

Or are there bugs already?

Thanks,
Miklos




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