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