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FromNigel Cunningham <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm 0/5] Freezer update
DateWed, 18 Jul 2007 17:46:03 +1000
Hi.

On Wednesday 18 July 2007 17:29:30 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The patches in these series update the freezer to eliminate some existing
> shortcomings, so please consider them as 2.6.23 material.
> 
> The patches do the following:
> * update the freezer documentation to describe, previously omitted, 
important
> á reason for freezing tasks (ie. memory shrinking)
> * remove sys_sync() from the freezer and make the suspend/hibernation code
> á invoke it explicitly
> * prevent new tasks from inheriting TIF_FREEZE set from the parents
> * introduce freezer-firendly wrappers around wait_event_interruptible()
> á and wait_event_interruptible_timeout()
> * prevent the freezer from sending signals to kernel threads

I've sent acks for a couple, but not all.

No ack for the sys_sync removal because I think this is just a work around for 
fuse issues, and fuse should be fixed (getting fuse tasks frozen 
post-sys_sync makes far more sense to me).

No ack for the other patches because I haven't put the time into considering 
them.

Regards,

Nigel
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