Please stop apps going into state D uninterrupted sleep !!

Tue May 8 23:58:32 UTC 2012

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 08:03 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> It's not that hard to save userspace in the kernel. Make SIGKILL abort
> the OS call and terminate the process. Have the kernel mark the I/O as
> cancelled in whatever form is necessary for the subsystem in use.

Something like http://lwn.net/Articles/288056/ but I'm not sure how far
that has gone (the article is nearly 4 years old).

poc