On 4/17/24 10:57 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 08:00:22PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: >>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion_long_io); >>> >>> Urgh, why is it a sane thing to circumvent the hang check timer? >> >> The block layer already does it - the bios can have arbitrary size, so >> waiting for them takes arbitrary time. > > And as mentioned the last few times around, I think we want a task > state to say that task can sleep long or even forever and not propagate > this hack even further.
It certainly is a hack/work-around, but unless there are a lot more that should be using something like this, I don't think adding extra core complexity in terms of a special task state (or per-task flag, at least that would be easier) is really warranted. -- Jens Axboe
