The patch titled
uml: aIO deadlock avoidance
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
uml-aio-deadlock-avoidance.patch
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Subject: uml: aIO deadlock avoidance
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Allow deadlocks to be avoided in the AIO code by setting the pipe to the I/O
thread non-blocking.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff -puN arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c~uml-aio-deadlock-avoidance arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c~uml-aio-deadlock-avoidance
+++ a/arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c
@@ -221,6 +221,11 @@ static int init_aio_24(void)
aio_req_fd_w = fds[0];
aio_req_fd_r = fds[1];
+
+ err = os_set_fd_block(aio_req_fd_w, 0);
+ if(err)
+ goto out_close_pipe;
+
err = run_helper_thread(not_aio_thread, NULL,
CLONE_FILES | CLONE_VM | SIGCHLD, &stack, 0);
if(err < 0)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx are
uml-delete-unused-code.patch
uml-formatting-fixes.patch
uml-host_info-tidying.patch
uml-mark-tt-mode-code-for-future-removal.patch
uml-print-coredump-limits.patch
uml-handle-block-device-hotplug-errors.patch
uml-driver-formatting-fixes.patch
uml-driver-formatting-fixes-fix.patch
uml-network-interface-hotplug-error-handling.patch
array_size-check-for-type-uml-fix.patch
uml-fix-prototypes.patch
uml-move-sigio-testing-to-sigioc.patch
uml-create-archh.patch
uml-create-as-layouth.patch
uml-move-remaining-useful-contents-of-user_utilh.patch
uml-remove-user_utilh.patch
uml-add-missing-__init-declarations.patch
remove-unused-header-file-arch-um-kernel-tt-include-mode_kern-tth.patch
uml-speed-up-exec.patch
uml-no-locking-needed-in-tlsc.patch
uml-tidy-processc.patch
uml-tidy-processc-fix.patch
uml-remove-page_size.patch
uml-kernel_thread-shouldnt-panic.patch
uml-tidy-fault-code.patch
uml-kernel-segfaults-should-dump-proper-registers.patch
uml-comment-early-boot-locking.patch
uml-irq-locking-commentary.patch
uml-delete-host_frame_size.patch
uml-drivers-get-release-methods.patch
uml-dump-registers-on-ptrace-or-wait-failure.patch
uml-speed-up-page-table-walking.patch
uml-remove-unused-x86_64-code.patch
uml-start-fixing-os_read_file-and-os_write_file.patch
uml-tidy-libc-code.patch
uml-convert-libc-layer-to-call-read-and-write.patch
uml-batch-i-o-requests.patch
uml-send-pointers-instead-of-structures-to-i-o-thread.patch
uml-dump-core-on-panic.patch
uml-dont-try-to-handle-signals-on-initial-process-stack.patch
uml-change-remaining-callers-of-os_read_write_file.patch
uml-formatting-fixes-around-os_read_write_file-callers.patch
uml-remove-debugging-remnants.patch
uml-rename-os_read_write_file_k-back-to-os_read_write_file.patch
uml-aio-deadlock-avoidance.patch
uml-speed-page-fault-path.patch
sys_futex64-allows-64bit-futexes-workaround-for-uml.patch
utrace-uml-make-uml-compile-with-utrace-enabled.patch
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