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

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On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 11:22:15AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Just making inode_lock() interruptible would break everything.
> 
> Why?  Obviously, you'd need to check the result of the inode_lock(), which I
> didn't put in my very rough example code, but why would taking the lock at the
> front of a vfs op like mkdir be a problem?

Plenty of new failure exits to maintain?




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