From d153ba64450b9371158c6516d6cac120faace44c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wu Fengguang Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:24:21 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] writeback: do uninterruptible sleep in balance_dirty_pages() Using TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE in balance_dirty_pages() seems wrong. If it's going to do that then it must break out if signal_pending(), otherwise it's pretty much guaranteed to degenerate into a busywait loop. Plus we *do* want these processes to appear in D state and to contribute to load average. So it should be TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. -- Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed