From: Jiri Kosina > Sent: 23 May 2016 19:45 > > Related, please can we have a flag for the sleep and/or process so that > > an uninterruptible sleep doesn't trigger the 'hung task' detector > > TASK_KILLABLE Not sure that does what I want. It appears to allow some 'kill' actions to wake the process. I'm sure I've looked at the 'hung task' code since 2007. > > and also stops the process counting towards the 'load average'. > > TASK_NOLOAD Ah, that was added in May 2015. Not surprising I didn't know about it. I'll leave the code doing: set_current_state(signal_pending(current) ? TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE ? TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); for a while longer. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
