[xserver-xorg][PATCH V2 1/1] xwayland-shm: block signals during fallocate

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Thu May 26 15:43:44 UTC 2016


On 25 May 2016 at 08:41, Ian Ray <ian.ray at ge.com> wrote:
> posix_fallocate() does an explicit rollback if it gets EINTR, and
> this is a problem on slow systems because when the allocation size
> is sufficiently large posix_fallocate() will always be interrupted
> by the smart scheduler's SIGALRM.
>
> Changes since v1 - big comment in the code to explain what is going on
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Ray <ian.ray at ge.com>

Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com>


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