Re: [PATCH 0/6] Allow signals for IO threads

[Stefan Metzmacher]

Am 26.03.21 um 15:38 schrieb Jens Axboe:
> On 3/26/21 7:59 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 3/26/21 7:54 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> The KILL after STOP deadlock still exists.
>>>
>>> In which tree? Sounds like you're still on the old one with that
>>> incremental you sent, which wasn't complete.
>>>
>>>> Does io_wq_manager() exits without cleaning up on SIGKILL?
>>>
>>> No, it should kill up in all cases. I'll try your stop + kill, I just
>>> tested both of them separately and didn't observe anything. I also ran
>>> your io_uring-cp example (and found a bug in the example, fixed and
>>> pushed), fwiw.
>>
>> I can reproduce this one! I'll take a closer look.
> 
> OK, that one is actually pretty straight forward - we rely on cleaning
> up on exit, but for fatal cases, get_signal() will call do_exit() for us
> and never return. So we might need a special case in there to deal with
> that, or some other way of ensuring that fatal signal gets processed
> correctly for IO threads.

And if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) doesn't prevent get_signal() from being called?

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