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fs: fix hang with BSD accounting on frozen filesystem
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:54:40 +0000 (21:54 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:56:27 +0000 (14:56 +1100)
commit9dea753cde489dced475dc28ac0ccc84707ed959
treebe5664cc07d860ff40a93e1a80dbc61b2faf3618
parente36e733eab657a695f4661abb295283ae19867cb
fs: fix hang with BSD accounting on frozen filesystem

When BSD process accounting is enabled and logs information to a
filesystem which gets frozen, system easily becomes unusable because each
attempt to account process information blocks.  Thus e.g.  every task gets
blocked in exit.

It seems better to drop accounting information (which can already happen
when filesystem is running out of space) instead of locking system up.  So
we open the accounting file with O_NONBLOCK.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz>
Tested-by: Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/acct.c