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SubjectRe: Signal handling in a page fault handler
On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 02:20:43PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Matthew Wilcox (2018-04-03 14:10:25)
> > On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 01:33:15PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > Quoting Matthew Wilcox (2018-04-02 15:10:58)
> > > > I don't think the graphics drivers really want to be interrupted by
> > > > any signal.
> > >
> > > Assume the worst case and we may block for 10s. Even a 10ms delay may be
> > > unacceptable to some signal handlers (one presumes). For the number one
> > > ^C usecase, yes that may be reduced to only bother if it's killable, but
> > > I wonder if there are not timing loops (e.g. sigitimer in Xorg < 1.19)
> > > that want to be able to interrupt random blockages.
> >
> > Ah, setitimer / SIGALRM. So what do we want to have happen if that
> > signal handler touches the mmaped device memory?
>
> Burn in a great ball of fire :) Isn't that what usually happens if you
> do anything in a signal handler?

I don't know. My mummy and daddy don't let me play with sharp things
like signals.

> Hmm, if SIGBUS has a handler does that count as a killable signal? The
> ddx does have code to service SIGBUS emitted when accessing the mmapped
> pointer that may result from the page insertion failing with no memory
> (or other random error). There we stop accessing via the pointer and
> use another indirect method.

Any signal with a handler is non-fatal, and so a call to
mutex_lock_killable() would not return if SIGBUS was delivered to a thread
blocking in a page fault. mutex_lock_interruptible() would return -EINTR.

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