linux-sg2042/include
Oleg Nesterov 2e01fabe67 signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals()
It is hardly possible to enumerate all problems with block_all_signals()
and unblock_all_signals().  Just for example,

1. block_all_signals(SIGSTOP/etc) simply can't help if the caller is
   multithreaded. Another thread can dequeue the signal and force the
   group stop.

2. Even is the caller is single-threaded, it will "stop" anyway. It
   will not sleep, but it will spin in kernel space until SIGCONT or
   SIGKILL.

And a lot more. In short, this interface doesn't work at all, at least
the last 10+ years.

Daniel said:

  Yeah the only times I played around with the DRM_LOCK stuff was when
  old drivers accidentally deadlocked - my impression is that the entire
  DRM_LOCK thing was never really tested properly ;-) Hence I'm all for
  purging where this leaks out of the drm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
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acpi Merge branch 'acpi-processor' 2015-11-02 00:50:37 +01:00
asm-generic Power management and ACPI updates for v4.4-rc1 2015-11-04 18:10:13 -08:00
clocksource
crypto Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2015-11-05 15:32:38 -08:00
drm signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals() 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
dt-bindings - New Device Support 2015-11-06 10:23:50 -08:00
keys KEYS: Merge the type-specific data with the payload data 2015-10-21 15:18:36 +01:00
kvm s390: A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time 2015-11-05 16:26:26 -08:00
linux signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals() 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
math-emu
media [media] v4l2: add support for SDR transmitter 2015-10-20 15:40:50 -02:00
memory
misc
net mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma
rxrpc
scsi
soc
sound Merge remote-tracking branches 'asoc/fix/rt298', 'asoc/fix/sx', 'asoc/fix/wm8904' and 'asoc/fix/wm8962' into asoc-linus 2015-10-23 08:44:14 +09:00
target target: Propigate backend read-only to core_tpg_add_lun 2015-09-24 23:17:21 -07:00
trace nilfs2: add tracepoints for analyzing reading and writing metadata files 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
uapi Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-11-05 23:10:54 -08:00
video
xen xen/grant-table: Add an helper to iterate over a specific number of grants 2015-10-23 14:20:46 +01:00
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