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From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: io-uring <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] io_uring fixes for 5.12-rc3
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:17:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjpS-kwozJQFNBestco=q5j3bcfXpVXc6uz=9_mmQ7oYg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:48 AM Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> - Make IO threads unfreezable by default, on account of a bug report
>   that had them spinning on resume. Honestly not quite sure why thawing
>   leaves us with a perpetual signal pending (causing the spin), but for
>   now make them unfreezable like there were in 5.11 and prior.

That "not quite sure" doesn't exactly give my the warm and fuzzies,
but not being new is ok, I guess. But I'd really like you to try to
figure out what is actually going on.

I'm _guessing_ it's just that now those threads are user threads, and
then the freezing logic expects them to freeze/thaw using a signal
machinery or something like that. And that doesn't work when there is
no signal handling for those threads.

But it would be good to _know_.

            Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-12 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-12 19:48 [GIT PULL] io_uring fixes for 5.12-rc3 Jens Axboe
2021-03-12 21:17 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-03-12 21:24   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-12 21:25     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-12 21:34       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-12 21:35         ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-12 21:33     ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-12 21:31   ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-12 21:52 ` pr-tracker-bot

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