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fs: Make write(2) interruptible by a fatal signal
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Fri, 2 Dec 2011 01:17:02 +0000 (09:17 +0800)
committerWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Fri, 2 Dec 2011 01:17:05 +0000 (09:17 +0800)
commita249db99a9a3d1b538600aec0260546c2f5b98c9
tree6f9bb1a5176b1a428ce272d398a2c784ee12f2eb
parent7b22c586be5daa2fe5c5af064d57e0e27279c400
fs: Make write(2) interruptible by a fatal signal

Currently write(2) to a file is not interruptible by any signal.
Sometimes this is desirable, e.g. when you want to quickly kill a
process hogging your disk. Also, with commit 405278399ef5 ("mm: Make
task in balance_dirty_pages() killable"), it's necessary to abort the
current write accordingly to avoid it quickly dirtying lots more pages
at unthrottled rate.

This patch makes write interruptible by SIGKILL. We do not allow write
to be interruptible by any other signal because that has larger
potential of screwing some badly written applications.

Reported-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Tested-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
mm/filemap.c