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

[Ian Ray]

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 04:43:44PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 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>

Any news on this?  f48b0534f110397246809d279225afedb28aa233 does not
resolve the EINTR on slow systems.