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authorJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>2007-05-06 14:51:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-07 12:13:03 -0700
commit8603ec81487a5fefbc29611ff0d635b33b6da990 (patch)
tree2cb7a391880aef15f33a0cea71bfd09ac5264c8f /arch
parenta6ea4cceed18edebe1eb6001cb9e0f88cd741a6c (diff)
uml: aIO deadlock avoidance
Allow deadlocks to be avoided in the AIO code by setting the pipe to the I/O thread non-blocking. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c
index 5d258eb4f50..9bf944f6a1d 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c
@@ -221,6 +221,11 @@ static int init_aio_24(void)
aio_req_fd_w = fds[0];
aio_req_fd_r = fds[1];
+
+ err = os_set_fd_block(aio_req_fd_w, 0);
+ if(err)
+ goto out_close_pipe;
+
err = run_helper_thread(not_aio_thread, NULL,
CLONE_FILES | CLONE_VM | SIGCHLD, &stack, 0);
if(err < 0)