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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)
commitf5245f9e59fd42f5f51a4e839551566728f6103c
tree6f9bb1a5176b1a428ce272d398a2c784ee12f2eb
parent708cfc24560bfcd6f2e6edb9cb02f205b64276a4
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 f08b749a0f25 ("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