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mm: Make task in balance_dirty_pages() killable
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:34:48 +0000 (19:34 +0800)
committerWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:53:44 +0000 (19:53 +0800)
commit405278399ef523a2ad57c42b5cc0eb59a96f6688
treecbcdc35276936db1d63959261bfbc02dda2b48a3
parent8b3dc924a0858256a837a34d01bdc8d97e4e289a
mm: Make task in balance_dirty_pages() killable

There is no reason why task in balance_dirty_pages() shouldn't be killable
and it helps in recovering from some error conditions (like when filesystem
goes in error state and cannot accept writeback anymore but we still want to
kill processes using it to be able to unmount it).

There will be follow up patches to further abort the generic_perform_write()
and other filesystem write loops, to avoid large write + SIGKILL combination
exceeding the dirty limit and possibly strange OOM.

Reported-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Tested-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
mm/page-writeback.c