Re: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks

[Ingo Molnar]

* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > TASK_KILLABLE should be the right solution i think.
> 
> .. and it's even a tool to show where we missed making something 
> TASK_KILLABLE... anything that triggers from NFS and the like really 
> ought to be TASK_KILLABLE after all. This patch will point any 
> omissions out quite nicely without having to do any kind of 
> destructive testing.

yeah, exactly. Having something "hard blocked" for a long amount of time 
is rarely a good thing.

	Ingo
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