Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754284AbXFOFKc (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:10:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751519AbXFOFKP (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:10:15 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55802 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751092AbXFOFKN (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:10:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Evgeniy Polyakov X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: Oleg Nesterov , Andrew Morton , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: w1_therm_read_bin: suspicious usage of flush_signals() In-Reply-To: Evgeniy Polyakov's message of Friday, 15 June 2007 08:28:57 +0400 <20070615042856.GA22786@2ka.mipt.ru> X-Windows: some voids are better left unfilled. Message-Id: <20070615051007.524434D059F@magilla.localdomain> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:10:07 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 468 Lines: 11 > Well, it can be uninterruptible sleep, but why? > It is not allowed to return to userspace until transaction is completed, > so having uninterruptible sleep will result in exactly same lost of > signals. Delay, not loss. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/