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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Improve mutex documentation
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On 15.03.2018 16:18, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 03:12:30PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>>> +/**
>>> + * mutex_lock_killable() - Acquire the mutex, interruptible by fatal signals.
>>
>> Shouldn't we clarify that fatal signals are SIGKILL only?
>
> It's more complicated than it might seem (... welcome to signal handling!)
> If you send SIGINT to a task that's waiting on a mutex_killable(), it will
> still die. I *think* that's due to the code in complete_signal():
>
> if (sig_fatal(p, sig) &&
> !(signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) &&
> !sigismember(&t->real_blocked, sig) &&
> (sig == SIGKILL || !p->ptrace)) {
> ...
> sigaddset(&t->pending.signal, SIGKILL);
>
> You're correct that this code only checks for SIGKILL, but any fatal
> signal will result in the signal group receiving SIGKILL.
>
> Unless I've misunderstood, and it wouldn't be the first time I've
> misunderstood signal handling.

Sure, thanks for the explanation.

Kirill

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