19 Oct, 2007
2 commits
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The freezer should not send signals to kernel threads, since that may lead to
subtle problems. In particular, commit
b74d0deb968e1f85942f17080eace015ce3c332c has changed recalc_sigpending_tsk()
so that it doesn't clear TIF_SIGPENDING. For this reason, if the freezer
continues to send fake signals to kernel threads and the freezing of kernel
threads fails, some of them may be running with TIF_SIGPENDING set forever.Accordingly, recalc_sigpending_tsk() shouldn't set the task's TIF_SIGPENDING
flag if TIF_FREEZE is set.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Cc: Nigel Cunningham
Cc: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
One important reason to freeze tasks, which is that we don't want them to
allocate memory after freeing it for the hibernation image, has not been
documented. Fix it.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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freezing-of-tasks.txt mentions firmware issues without mentioning the use
of the new notifier API to overcome them. Here's an update.Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham
Cc: Pavel Machek
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds