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| author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2009-12-14 17:59:56 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -0800 |
| commit | 536240f2bde98216feac87b4891d19a536b8884a (patch) | |
| tree | e4755bb36c232262a2ebadb055d8947acb39b672 /mm/hugetlb.c | |
| parent | 6927c1dd93fc982140f3a3742ac4b224cd3e02b2 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-536240f2bde98216feac87b4891d19a536b8884a.tar.gz lwn-536240f2bde98216feac87b4891d19a536b8884a.zip | |
hugetlb: abort a hugepage pool resize if a signal is pending
If a user asks for a hugepage pool resize but specified a large number,
the machine can begin trashing. In response, they might hit ctrl-c but
signals are ignored and the pool resize continues until it fails an
allocation. This can take a considerable amount of time so this patch
aborts a pool resize if a signal is pending.
Suggested by Dave Hansen.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/hugetlb.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/hugetlb.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 6df8065039eb..65f38c218207 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1278,6 +1278,9 @@ static unsigned long set_max_huge_pages(struct hstate *h, unsigned long count, if (!ret) goto out; + /* Bail for signals. Probably ctrl-c from user */ + if (signal_pending(current)) + goto out; } /* |