mm: Make task in balance_dirty_pages() killable
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:34:48 +0000 (19:34 +0800)
committerWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:53:44 +0000 (19:53 +0800)
commit499d05ecf990a7a7bbf9e0a273f9969f8ec69efc
treecbcdc35276936db1d63959261bfbc02dda2b48a3
parent6aaf05f472c97ebceff47d9eef464574f1a55727
mm: Make task in balance_dirty_pages() killable

There is no reason why task in balance_dirty_pages() shouldn't be killable
and it helps in recovering from some error conditions (like when filesystem
goes in error state and cannot accept writeback anymore but we still want to
kill processes using it to be able to unmount it).

There will be follow up patches to further abort the generic_perform_write()
and other filesystem write loops, to avoid large write + SIGKILL combination
exceeding the dirty limit and possibly strange OOM.

Reported-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Tested-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
mm/page-writeback.c