From: Jeff Dike Allow deadlocks to be avoided in the AIO code by setting the pipe to the I/O thread non-blocking. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c~uml-aio-deadlock-avoidance arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c~uml-aio-deadlock-avoidance +++ a/arch/um/os-Linux/aio.c @@ -221,6 +221,11 @@ static int init_aio_24(void) aio_req_fd_w = fds[0]; aio_req_fd_r = fds[1]; + + err = os_set_fd_block(aio_req_fd_w, 0); + if(err) + goto out_close_pipe; + err = run_helper_thread(not_aio_thread, NULL, CLONE_FILES | CLONE_VM | SIGCHLD, &stack, 0); if(err < 0) _