Re: [PATCH 0/2] sched/wait: abort_exclusive_wait() should pass TASK_NORMAL to wake_up()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Sep 01 2016 - 07:03:38 EST


On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 02:44:53PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> And this reminds me... I still fail to understand why/how the commit
> 68985633bccb60 "sched/wait: Fix signal handling in bit wait helpers"
> can help. Apart from s/return 1/return -EINTR/. Peter, do you have any
> theory?

No, I was (and still am) completely puzzled by that one.