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[PATCH] fuse: add connection aborting
authorMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Tue, 17 Jan 2006 06:14:41 +0000 (22:14 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:15:30 +0000 (23:15 -0800)
commit69a53bf267fa58b89aa659d121dfe38436562a30
tree36276fdbf7bfdc787708e8d5b2d4b79a0b5a4c56
parent0cd5b88553acf0611474dbaf8e43770eed268060
[PATCH] fuse: add connection aborting

Add ability to abort a filesystem connection.

With the introduction of asynchronous reads, the ability to interrupt any
request is not enough to dissolve deadlocks, since now waiting for the request
completion (page unlocked) is independent of the actual request, so in a
deadlock all threads will be uninterruptible.

The solution is to make it possible to abort all requests, even those
currently undergoing I/O to/from userspace.  The natural interface for this is
'mount -f mountpoint', but that only works as long as the filesystem is
attached.  So also add an 'abort' attribute to the sysfs view of the
connection.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fs/fuse/dev.c
fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
fs/fuse/inode.c