Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm/scheduler: Don't call wait_event_killable for signaled process.

[Eric W. Biederman]

Andrey Grodzovsky <Andrey.Grodzovsky@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On 04/25/2018 01:17 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> On 04/25, Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
>>> here (drm_sched_entity_fini) is also a bad idea, but we still want to be
>>> able to exit immediately
>>> and not wait for GPU jobs completion when the reason for reaching this code
>>> is because of KILL
>>> signal to the user process who opened the device file.
>> Can you hook f_op->flush method?
>
> But this one is called for each task releasing a reference to the the file, so
> not sure I see how this solves the problem.

The big question is why do you need to wait during the final closing a
file?

The wait can be terminated so the wait does not appear to be simply a
matter of correctness.

Eric