Re: [Patch 0/2] Kernel: mutex_lock_killable

[Ingo Molnar]

* Liam Howlett <howlett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> This series of patches add the ability to make mutex locks killable 
> instead of uninterruptable.
> 
> This patch set builds on willys 5 patches for TASK_KILLABLE that are 
> currently in mm (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/18/423 for more 
> details).  I have used 2.6.24-rc3 with the addition of willys patches.
> 
> The first patch adds the mutex_lock_killable to the kernel/mutex.c and 
> kernel/mutex.h.
> 
> The second patch is a use of the mutex_lock_killable to fs/readdir.c 
> to use the new mutex_lock_killable.  This was enough for a small test 
> application to be killable once the ethernet was pulled on an nfs 
> mount (please note that this does not allow a normal ls to be killed 
> yet).

nice patches!

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

	Ingo
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