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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] freezer: revert 27920651fe "PM / Freezer: Make fake_signal_wake_up() wake TASK_KILLABLE tasks too"
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On Wednesday, November 02, 2011, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11/01, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >
> > For now, let's go with the count/dont_count. Can you please write up
> > a patch for that? Jeff, does this seem okay to you?
>
> OK, will do in a minute. On top of
> "[PATCH pm] freezer: fix wait_event_freezable/__thaw_task races"
> you sent. (btw, thanks, I forgout about it ;)
>
> Rafael, could you remind why freezer_do_not_count/freezer_count check
> ->mm != NULL ?

You're asking difficult questions. ;-)

The intention was to prevent PF_FREEZER_SKIP from having any effect on
kernel threads, IIRC. Anyway, there are only two legitimate users of it
(vfork and apm_ioctl) and in both cases the task in question is user space.

> The comment says "However, we don't want kernel threads to be frozen",
> but it is not clear anyway. A kernel thread simply shouldn't use this
> interface if it doesn't want to freeze.
>
> And in any case, PF_KTHREAD looks better if we really need to filter
> out the kernel threads.

PF_FREEZER_SKIP was introduced specifically with vfork in mind and I'm not
sure if it's a good idea to re-use it for something else (at least not for
something entirely obvious).

Thanks,
Rafael


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