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    SubjectRe: [linux-pm] 2.6.21-rc4-mm1: freezing of processes broken
    On 03/21, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
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    > On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 19:23 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
    > > >> > Rafael J. Wysocki napsal(a):
    > > >
    > > > Bisection shows that the freezing of processes has been broken by one of the
    > > > patches:
    > > >
    > > > remove-the-likelypid-check-in-copy_process.patch
    > >
    > > Grr. Oleg's review of remove-the-likelypid-check-in-copy-process
    > > showed it to be questionable (and it was just an optimization)
    > > so we can get rid of that one easily.
    > >
    > > Although all it did that was really questionable was add
    > > the idle process to the global process list and bump a process
    > > count when we forked the idle process. Not dramatically dangerous
    > > things.
    >
    > Could the freezer code be trying to freeze the idle thread as a result?

    Yes. remove-the-likelypid-check-in-copy_process.patch make idle threads
    visible to for_each_process/do_each_thread. Note also that idle threads
    have ->mm != NULL. freezer, oom_kill, move_task_off_dead_cpu, etc, should
    not see idle threads, but they do now.

    Oleg.

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