Re: [PATCH] coredump: Retry writes where appropriate

[Roland McGrath]

> Fortunately, this doesn't look hard. Whatever we do, we should modify
> dump_write/seek to check fatal_signal_pending() anyway. Because we can't
> know if f_ops->write() pays attention to signals. 

Yes, that sounds fine.

> This means we can just add try_to_freeze().

Right.

> As for exit_mm(), we can use freezer_do_not_count() + freezer_count()
> around the "for (;;)" loop.

Ah yes, sure.


Thanks,
Roland
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