Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Tue, 6 Jun 2017 21:56:47 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] firmware: fix sending -ERESTARTSYS due to signal on fallback |
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On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 06:11:51PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 06:47:34PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 03:53:16PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > We rely on swait, and swait right now only uses -ERESTARTSYS. Are > you saying we could mask out -ERESTARTSYS and map it to -ERESTARTNOINTR > or -ERESTARTNOHAND if we see fit for some future functionality / need ?
I think that has essentially nothing to do with swait. User code does some syscall. That syscall triggers a firmware load. The caller gets a signal. If you're going to let firmware load get interrupted, you need to consider what the syscall is.
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