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Message-Id: <20071024211140.329fdd90.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:11:40 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Add lock_page_killable

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:24:57 -0400 Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> wrote:

> and associated infrastructure such as sync_page_killable and
> fatal_signal_pending.  Use lock_page_killable in do_generic_mapping_read()
> to allow us to kill `cat' of a file on an NFS-mounted filesystem.

whoa, big change.

What exactly are the semantics here?  If the process has actually been
killed (ie: we know that userspace won't be running again) then we break
out of a lock_page() and allow the process to exit?  ie: it's basically
invisible to userspace?

If so, it sounds OK.  I guess.  We're still screwed if the process is doing
a synchronous write and lots of other scenarios.

How well has this been tested?

Have the NFS guys had a think about it?

Why does it return -EIO from read() and not -EINTR?
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