Re: [PATCH 6/6] freezer: kill unused set_freezable_with_signal()

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 05:25:39PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 09/06, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > Yes, agreed. In this case I think it should be
> >
> > 	#define wait_event_freezable(wq, condition)				\
> > 	({									\
> > 		int __retval;							\
> > 		for (;;) {							\
> > 			__retval = wait_event_interruptible(wq, 		\
> > 					(condition) || freezing(current));	\
> > 			if (__retval || (condition))				\
> > 				break;						\
> > 			try_to_freeze();					\
> > 		}								\
> > 		__retval;							\
> > 	})
> >
> > __retval/ERESTARTSYS is only needed for kthreads which play with allow_signal(),
> > probably nobody should do this.
> 
> I meant, unless the caller plays with allow_signal(), it has all rights to do
> 
> 	if (wait_event_freezable(...))
> 		BUG();
> 
> This becomes correct with the code above.

Yeap, sure, w/ freezable_with_signal gone, the above should work fine.
Care to create a patch?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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