From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
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"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] mm: replace vma_start_write() with vma_start_write_killable()
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2026 19:00:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aaiBX5Mm36Kg0wq1@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76aff8f9-1c08-449a-a034-f3b93440d1a8@lucifer.local>
On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 04:53:27PM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 03:24:05AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > We could literally return any error code -- it never makes it to
> > userspace. I forget where it is, but if you follow the syscall
> > return to user path, a dying task never makes it to running a single
> > instruction.
>
> Thanks for that Matthew, that makes life easier then.
>
> We can probably replace some of the more horrid if (err == -EINTR) stuff with
> fatal_signal_pending(current) to be clearer as a result.
Umm. Be careful? fatal_signal_pending() may become true at a later
point, so you may have acquired the lock _and_ fatal_signal_pending()
can be true. I'd need to audit a patch to be sure that it's a
reasonable replacement.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-04 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-26 7:06 [PATCH v3 0/3] Use killable vma write locking in most places Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-02-26 7:06 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] mm/vma: cleanup error handling path in vma_expand() Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-02-26 16:42 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-02-26 17:23 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-02 13:57 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-03-03 21:08 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-02-26 7:06 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] mm: replace vma_start_write() with vma_start_write_killable() Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-02-26 17:43 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-02-26 21:44 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-02 14:52 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-03-03 22:11 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-03 22:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-03-04 0:02 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-04 3:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-03-04 16:53 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-04 19:00 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2026-03-04 16:51 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-02-26 7:06 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] mm: use vma_start_write_killable() in process_vma_walk_lock() Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-02-26 18:10 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2026-02-26 18:24 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-02-27 8:57 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2026-03-02 15:19 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-03-03 23:59 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-04 16:58 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
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