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authorKirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>2018-03-14 22:17:20 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-03-16 19:31:19 +0300
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net: Add rtnl_lock_killable()
rtnl_lock() is widely used mutex in kernel. Some of kernel code does memory allocations under it. In case of memory deficit this may invoke OOM killer, but the problem is a killed task can't exit if it's waiting for the mutex. This may be a reason of deadlock and panic. This patch adds a new primitive, which responds on SIGKILL, and it allows to use it in the places, where we don't want to sleep forever. Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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