On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 05:04:21PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 04:16:26PM -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote: > > Even after the previous patch to drop lo_ctl_mutex while calling > > vfs_getattr(), there are other cases where we can end up sleeping for a > > long time while holding lo_ctl_mutex. Let's avoid the uninterruptible > > sleep from the ioctls. > > Umm ... you want these ioctls to return -EINTR just because you resized > an xterm? I think you really meant mutex_lock_killable().
Does that really happen? In some cases (namely user called ioctls) I'd like to allow ctrl-c to interrupt a mutex_lock or other _interruptible actions. I'd be very surprised if resizing terminal stops the command I've just started.
