Re: [PATCH 0/5] TASK_KILLABLE

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From: Nick Piggin

Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 8:55 pm

On Friday 19 October 2007 08:25, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
quoted text> This series of patches introduces the facility to deliver only fatal
> signals to tasks which are otherwise waiting uninterruptibly.


This is pretty nice I think. It also is a significant piece of
infrastructure required to fix some of the main oom kill deadlocks.
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[PATCH 0/5] TASK_KILLABLE, Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Oct 18, 3:25 pm)

[PATCH 1/5] Use wake_up_locked() in eventpoll, Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Oct 18, 3:25 pm)

[PATCH 2/5] Use macros instead of TASK_ flags, Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Oct 18, 3:25 pm)

[PATCH 3/5] Add TASK_WAKEKILL, Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Oct 18, 3:26 pm)

[PATCH 4/5] Add lock_page_killable, Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Oct 18, 3:26 pm)

[PATCH 5/5] Make wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb killable, Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Oct 18, 3:26 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Use wake_up_locked() in eventpoll, Arjan van de Ven, (Thu Oct 18, 8:56 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Use wake_up_locked() in eventpoll, Matthew Wilcox, (Fri Oct 19, 9:28 am)

Re: [PATCH 2/5] Use macros instead of TASK_ flags, Nick Piggin, (Wed Oct 24, 8:50 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/5] Make wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb killable, Nick Piggin, (Wed Oct 24, 8:53 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/5] TASK_KILLABLE, Nick Piggin, (Wed Oct 24, 8:55 pm)


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