linux-kernel - Re: w1_therm_read_bin: suspicious usage of flush

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Message-Id: <20070615051007.524434D059F@magilla.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:10:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: w1_therm_read_bin: suspicious usage of flush_signals()

> Well, it can be uninterruptible sleep, but why?
> It is not allowed to return to userspace until transaction is completed,
> so having uninterruptible sleep will result in exactly same lost of
> signals.

Delay, not loss.
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