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hugetlb: abort a hugepage pool resize if a signal is pending

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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>
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Mel Gorman 2009-12-14 17:59:56 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6927c1dd93
commit 536240f2bd
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@ -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;
}
/*