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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] PM / Freezer: Remove the "userspace only" constraint from freezer[_do_not]_count()
On 12/06, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
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> And moreover, even the vfork issue does not need
> the above restriction in these functions, since they are anyway called by
> userspace processes.

This looks a bit confusing, as if CLONE_VFORK is not used by kthreads.
It is actually used, but only by the non-freezeable workqueue threads,
so the patch is fine.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>



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