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fs: fix hang with BSD accounting on frozen filesystem
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:07:02 +0000 (15:07 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:28:22 +0000 (16:28 +1100)
commitdda051ceca9a02ff121196a27ca7361829b70674
tree135de35dc88e6fa584bdb82335a2aa0122b4008d
parenta4a8c6dfbd703c0be8587efb2f5ff29245160d42
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