27 Dec, 2011
1 commit
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...it should return the return code from schedule_timeout_killable(),
not the one from freezer_count().All of the current callers ignore the return code so the bug is
harmless but it's worth fixing.Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
09 Dec, 2011
1 commit
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At present, the functions freezer_count() and freezer_do_not_count()
impose the restriction that they are effective only for userspace processes.
However, now, these functions have found more utility than originally
intended by the commit which introduced it: ba96a0c8 (freezer:
fix vfork problem). And moreover, even the vfork issue actually does not
need the above restriction in these functions.So, modify these functions to make them work even for kernel threads, so
that they can be used at other places in the kernel, where the userspace
restriction doesn't apply.Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
07 Dec, 2011
1 commit
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Allow the freezer to skip wait_on_bit_killable sleeps in the sunrpc
layer. This should allow suspend and hibernate events to proceed, even
when there are RPC's pending on the wire.Also, wrap the TASK_KILLABLE sleeps in NFS layer in freezer_do_not_count
and freezer_count calls. This allows the freezer to skip tasks that are
sleeping while looping on EJUKEBOX or NFS4ERR_DELAY sorts of errors.Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
25 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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Commit 944e192db53c "freezer: rename thaw_process() to __thaw_task()
and simplify the implementation" did not create a !CONFIG_FREEZER version
of __thaw_task().Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
24 Nov, 2011
2 commits
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wait_event_freezable() and friends stop the waiting if try_to_freeze()
fails. This is not right, we can race with __thaw_task() and in this
case- wait_event_freezable() returns the wrong ERESTARTSYS
- wait_event_freezable_timeout() can return the positive
value while condition == FChange the code to always check __retval/condition before return.
Note: with or without this patch the timeout logic looks strange,
probably we should recalc timeout if try_to_freeze() returns T.Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Acked-by: Tejun Heo -
There's no in-kernel user of set_freezable_with_signal() left. Mixing
TIF_SIGPENDING with kernel threads can lead to nasty corner cases as
kernel threads never travel signal delivery path on their own.e.g. the current implementation is buggy in the cancelation path of
__thaw_task(). It calls recalc_sigpending_and_wake() in an attempt to
clear TIF_SIGPENDING but the function never clears it regardless of
sigpending state. This means that signallable freezable kthreads may
continue executing with !freezing() && stuck TIF_SIGPENDING, which can
be troublesome.This patch removes set_freezable_with_signal() along with
PF_FREEZER_NOSIG and recalc_sigpending*() calls in freezer. User
tasks get TIF_SIGPENDING, kernel tasks get woken up and the spurious
sigpending is dealt with in the usual signal delivery path.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov
22 Nov, 2011
9 commits
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After "freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect
instead of TIF_FREEZE", freezing() returns authoritative answer on
whether the current task should freeze or not and freeze_task()
doesn't need or use @sig_only. Remove it.While at it, rewrite function comment for freeze_task() and rename
@sig_only to @user_only in try_to_freeze_tasks().This patch doesn't cause any functional change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov -
A kthread doing set_freezable*() may race with on-going PM freeze and
the freezer might think all tasks are frozen while the new freezable
kthread is merrily proceeding to execute code paths which aren't
supposed to be executing during PM freeze.Reimplement set_freezable[_with_signal]() using __set_freezable() such
that freezable PF flags are modified under freezer_lock and
try_to_freeze() is called afterwards. This eliminates race condition
against freezing.Note: Separated out from larger patch to resolve fix order dependency
Oleg pointed out.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Oleg Nesterov -
should_send_signal() is only used in freezer.c. Exporting them only
increases chance of abuse. Open code the two users and remove it.Update frozen() to return bool.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
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Using TIF_FREEZE for freezing worked when there was only single
freezing condition (the PM one); however, now there is also the
cgroup_freezer and single bit flag is getting clumsy.
thaw_processes() is already testing whether cgroup freezing in in
effect to avoid thawing tasks which were frozen by both PM and cgroup
freezers.This is racy (nothing prevents race against cgroup freezing) and
fragile. A much simpler way is to test actual freeze conditions from
freezing() - ie. directly test whether PM or cgroup freezing is in
effect.This patch adds variables to indicate whether and what type of
freezing conditions are in effect and reimplements freezing() such
that it directly tests whether any of the two freezing conditions is
active and the task should freeze. On fast path, freezing() is still
very cheap - it only tests system_freezing_cnt.This makes the clumsy dancing aroung TIF_FREEZE unnecessary and
freeze/thaw operations more usual - updating state variables for the
new state and nudging target tasks so that they notice the new state
and comply. As long as the nudging happens after state update, it's
race-free.* This allows use of freezing() in freeze_task(). Replace the open
coded tests with freezing().* p != current test is added to warning printing conditions in
try_to_freeze_tasks() failure path. This is necessary as freezing()
is now true for the task which initiated freezing too.-v2: Oleg pointed out that re-freezing FROZEN cgroup could increment
system_freezing_cnt. Fixed.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Paul Menage (for the cgroup portions) -
TIF_FREEZE will be removed soon and freezing() will directly test
whether any freezing condition is in effect. Make the following
changes in preparation.* Rename cgroup_freezing_or_frozen() to cgroup_freezing() and make it
return bool.* Make cgroup_freezing() access task_freezer() under rcu read lock
instead of task_lock(). This makes the state dereferencing racy
against task moving to another cgroup; however, it was already racy
without this change as ->state dereference wasn't synchronized.
This will be later dealt with using attach hooks.* freezer->state is now set before trying to push tasks into the
target state.-v2: Oleg pointed out that freeze_change_state() was setting
freeze->state incorrectly to CGROUP_FROZEN instead of
CGROUP_FREEZING. Fixed.-v3: Matt pointed out that setting CGROUP_FROZEN used to always invoke
try_to_freeze_cgroup() regardless of the current state. Patch
updated such that the actual freeze/thaw operations are always
performed on invocation. This shouldn't make any difference
unless something is broken.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Oleg Nesterov -
freeze_processes() failure path is rather messy. Freezing is canceled
for workqueues and tasks which aren't frozen yet but frozen tasks are
left alone and should be thawed by the caller and of course some
callers (xen and kexec) didn't do it.This patch updates __thaw_task() to handle cancelation correctly and
makes freeze_processes() and freeze_kernel_threads() call
thaw_processes() on failure instead so that the system is fully thawed
on failure. Unnecessary [suspend_]thaw_processes() calls are removed
from kernel/power/hibernate.c, suspend.c and user.c.While at it, restructure error checking if clause in suspend_prepare()
to be less weird.-v2: Srivatsa spotted missing removal of suspend_thaw_processes() in
suspend_prepare() and error in commit message. Updated.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat -
thaw_process() now has only internal users - system and cgroup
freezers. Remove the unnecessary return value, rename, unexport and
collapse __thaw_process() into it. This will help further updates to
the freezer code.-v3: oom_kill grew a use of thaw_process() while this patch was
pending. Convert it to use __thaw_task() for now. In the longer
term, this should be handled by allowing tasks to die if killed
even if it's frozen.-v2: minor style update as suggested by Matt.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: Matt Helsley -
Writeback and thinkpad_acpi have been using thaw_process() to prevent
deadlock between the freezer and kthread_stop(); unfortunately, this
is inherently racy - nothing prevents freezing from happening between
thaw_process() and kthread_stop().This patch implements kthread_freezable_should_stop() which enters
refrigerator if necessary but is guaranteed to return if
kthread_stop() is invoked. Both thaw_process() users are converted to
use the new function.Note that this deadlock condition exists for many of freezable
kthreads. They need to be converted to use the new should_stop or
freezable workqueue.Tested with synthetic test case.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Oleg Nesterov -
There is no reason to export two functions for entering the
refrigerator. Calling refrigerator() instead of try_to_freeze()
doesn't save anything noticeable or removes any race condition.* Rename refrigerator() to __refrigerator() and make it return bool
indicating whether it scheduled out for freezing.* Update try_to_freeze() to return bool and relay the return value of
__refrigerator() if freezing().* Convert all refrigerator() users to try_to_freeze().
* Update documentation accordingly.
* While at it, add might_sleep() to try_to_freeze().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Samuel Ortiz
Cc: Chris Mason
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o"
Cc: Steven Whitehouse
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Jan Kara
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
05 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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Commit 27920651fe "PM / Freezer: Make fake_signal_wake_up() wake
TASK_KILLABLE tasks too" updated fake_signal_wake_up() used by freezer
to wake up KILLABLE tasks. Sending unsolicited wakeups to tasks in
killable sleep is dangerous as there are code paths which depend on
tasks not waking up spuriously from KILLABLE sleep.For example. sys_read() or page can sleep in TASK_KILLABLE assuming
that wait/down/whatever _killable can only fail if we can not return
to the usermode. TASK_TRACED is another obvious example.The offending commit was to resolve freezer hang during system PM
operations caused by KILLABLE sleeps in network filesystems.
wait_event_freezekillable(), which depends on the spurious KILLABLE
wakeup, was added by f06ac72e92 "cifs, freezer: add
wait_event_freezekillable and have cifs use it" to be used to
implement killable & freezable sleeps in network filesystems.To prepare for reverting of 27920651fe, this patch reimplements
wait_event_freezekillable() using freezer_do_not_count/freezer_count()
so that it doesn't depend on the spurious KILLABLE wakeup. This isn't
very nice but should do for now.[tj: Refreshed patch to apply to linus/master and updated commit
description on Rafael's request.]Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
29 Oct, 2011
1 commit
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* '3.2-without-smb2' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (52 commits)
Fix build break when freezer not configured
Add definition for share encryption
CIFS: Make cifs_push_locks send as many locks at once as possible
CIFS: Send as many mandatory unlock ranges at once as possible
CIFS: Implement caching mechanism for posix brlocks
CIFS: Implement caching mechanism for mandatory brlocks
CIFS: Fix DFS handling in cifs_get_file_info
CIFS: Fix error handling in cifs_readv_complete
[CIFS] Fixup trivial checkpatch warning
[CIFS] Show nostrictsync and noperm mount options in /proc/mounts
cifs, freezer: add wait_event_freezekillable and have cifs use it
cifs: allow cifs_max_pending to be readable under /sys/module/cifs/parameters
cifs: tune bdi.ra_pages in accordance with the rsize
cifs: allow for larger rsize= options and change defaults
cifs: convert cifs_readpages to use async reads
cifs: add cifs_async_readv
cifs: fix protocol definition for READ_RSP
cifs: add a callback function to receive the rest of the frame
cifs: break out 3rd receive phase into separate function
cifs: find mid earlier in receive codepath
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28 Oct, 2011
1 commit
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fs/cifs/transport.c: In function 'wait_for_response':
fs/cifs/transport.c:328: error: implicit declaration of function 'wait_event_freezekillable'Caused by commit f06ac72e9291 ("cifs, freezer: add
wait_event_freezekillable and have cifs use it"). In this config,
CONFIG_FREEZER is not set.Reviewed-by: Shirish Pargaonkar
CC: Jeff Layton
Signed-off-by: Steve French
20 Oct, 2011
2 commits
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Signed-off-by: Steve French
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CIFS currently uses wait_event_killable to put tasks to sleep while
they await replies from the server. That function though does not
allow the freezer to run. In many cases, the network interface may
be going down anyway, in which case the reply will never come. The
client then ends up blocking the computer from suspending.Fix this by adding a new wait_event_freezable variant --
wait_event_freezekillable. The idea is to combine the behavior of
wait_event_killable and wait_event_freezable -- put the task to
sleep and only allow it to be awoken by fatal signals, but also
allow the freezer to do its job.Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton
17 Oct, 2011
1 commit
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There is a problem with the current ordering of hibernate code which
leads to deadlocks in some filesystems' memory shrinkers. Namely,
some filesystems use freezable kernel threads that are inactive when
the hibernate memory preallocation is carried out. Those same
filesystems use memory shrinkers that may be triggered by the
hibernate memory preallocation. If those memory shrinkers wait for
the frozen kernel threads, the hibernate process deadlocks (this
happens with XFS, for one example).Apparently, it is not technically viable to redesign the filesystems
in question to avoid the situation described above, so the only
possible solution of this issue is to defer the freezing of kernel
threads until the hibernate memory preallocation is done, which is
implemented by this change.Unfortunately, this requires the memory preallocation to be done
before the "prepare" stage of device freeze, so after this change the
only way drivers can allocate additional memory for their freeze
routines in a clean way is to use PM notifiers.Reported-by: Christoph
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
17 Feb, 2011
1 commit
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There are two spellings in use for 'freeze' + 'able' - 'freezable' and
'freezeable'. The former is the more prominent one. The latter is
mostly used by workqueue and in a few other odd places. Unify the
spelling to 'freezable'.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Reported-by: Alan Stern
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Alex Dubov
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Steven Whitehouse
27 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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When the cgroup freezer is used to freeze tasks we do not want to thaw
those tasks during resume. Currently we test the cgroup freezer
state of the resuming tasks to see if the cgroup is FROZEN. If so
then we don't thaw the task. However, the FREEZING state also indicates
that the task should remain frozen.This also avoids a problem pointed out by Oren Ladaan: the freezer state
transition from FREEZING to FROZEN is updated lazily when userspace reads
or writes the freezer.state file in the cgroup filesystem. This means that
resume will thaw tasks in cgroups which should be in the FROZEN state if
there is no read/write of the freezer.state file to trigger this
transition before suspend.NOTE: Another "simple" solution would be to always update the cgroup
freezer state during resume. However it's a bad choice for several reasons:
Updating the cgroup freezer state is somewhat expensive because it requires
walking all the tasks in the cgroup and checking if they are each frozen.
Worse, this could easily make resume run in N^2 time where N is the number
of tasks in the cgroup. Finally, updating the freezer state from this code
path requires trickier locking because of the way locks must be ordered.Instead of updating the freezer state we rely on the fact that lazy
updates only manage the transition from FREEZING to FROZEN. We know that
a cgroup with the FREEZING state may actually be FROZEN so test for that
state too. This makes sense in the resume path even for partially-frozen
cgroups -- those that really are FREEZING but not FROZEN.Reported-by: Oren Ladaan
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
31 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Don't duplicate the implementation of thaw_process().
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __thaw_process() static]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
Cc: Cedric Le Goater
Acked-by: Matt Helsley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Oct, 2008
2 commits
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This patch implements a new freezer subsystem in the control groups
framework. It provides a way to stop and resume execution of all tasks in
a cgroup by writing in the cgroup filesystem.The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named
freezer.state. Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks
in the cgroup. Subsequently writing "RUNNING" will unfreeze the tasks in
the cgroup. Reading will return the current state.* Examples of usage :
# mkdir /containers/freezer
# mount -t cgroup -ofreezer freezer /containers
# mkdir /containers/0
# echo $some_pid > /containers/0/tasksto get status of the freezer subsystem :
# cat /containers/0/freezer.state
RUNNINGto freeze all tasks in the container :
# echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state
# cat /containers/0/freezer.state
FREEZING
# cat /containers/0/freezer.state
FROZENto unfreeze all tasks in the container :
# echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state
# cat /containers/0/freezer.state
RUNNINGThis is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space
task in a simple scenario.It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete. In that case we
return EBUSY. This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing
something that prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this
time. After EBUSY, the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected
by freezer.state reporting "FREEZING" when read. The state will remain
"FREEZING" until one of these things happens:1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "RUNNING" to
the freezer.state file
2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to
the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal
and returns EIO)
3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN"
state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export thaw_process]
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Tested-by: Matt Helsley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Now that the TIF_FREEZE flag is available in all architectures, extract
the refrigerator() and freeze_task() from kernel/power/process.c and make
it available to all.The refrigerator() can now be used in a control group subsystem
implementing a control group freezer.Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Tested-by: Matt Helsley
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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The freezer currently attempts to distinguish kernel threads from
user space tasks by checking if their mm pointer is unset and it
does not send fake signals to kernel threads. However, there are
kernel threads, mostly related to networking, that behave like
user space tasks and may want to be sent a fake signal to be frozen.Introduce the new process flag PF_FREEZER_NOSIG that will be set
by default for all kernel threads and make the freezer only send
fake signals to the tasks having PF_FREEZER_NOSIG unset. Provide
the set_freezable_with_signal() function to be called by the kernel
threads that want to be sent a fake signal for freezing.This patch should not change the freezer's observable behavior.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Len Brown
19 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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Introduce freezer-friendly wrappers around wait_event_interruptible() and
wait_event_interruptible_timeout(), originally defined in , to
be used in freezable kernel threads. Make some of the freezable kernel
threads use them.This is necessary for the freezer to stop sending signals to kernel threads,
which is implemented in the next patch.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Cc: Nigel Cunningham
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND representing the ability to enter system sleep
states, such as the ACPI S3 state, and allow the user to choose SUSPEND
and HIBERNATION independently of each other.Make HOTPLUG_CPU be selected automatically if SUSPEND or HIBERNATION has
been chosen and the kernel is intended for SMP systems.Also, introduce CONFIG_PM_SLEEP which is automatically selected if
CONFIG_SUSPEND or CONFIG_HIBERNATION is set and use it to select the
code needed for both suspend and hibernation.The top-level power management headers and the ACPI code related to
suspend and hibernation are modified to use the new definitions (the
changes in drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c are, mostly, moving code to reduce
the number of ifdefs).There are many other files in which CONFIG_PM can be replaced with
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP or even with CONFIG_SUSPEND, but they can be updated in
the future.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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Kernel threads should not have TIF_FREEZE set when user space processes are
being frozen, since otherwise some of them might be frozen prematurely.
To prevent this from happening we can (1) make exit_mm() unset TIF_FREEZE
unconditionally just after clearing tsk->mm and (2) make try_to_freeze_tasks()
check if p->mm is different from zero and PF_BORROWED_MM is unset in p->flags
when user space processes are to be frozen.Namely, when user space processes are being frozen, we only should set
TIF_FREEZE for tasks that have p->mm different from NULL and don't have
PF_BORROWED_MM set in p->flags. For this reason task_lock() must be used to
prevent try_to_freeze_tasks() from racing with use_mm()/unuse_mm(), in which
p->mm and p->flags.PF_BORROWED_MM are changed under task_lock(p). Also, we
need to prevent the following scenario from happening:* daemonize() is called by a task spawned from a user space code path
* freezer checks if the task has p->mm set and the result is positive
* task enters exit_mm() and clears its TIF_FREEZE
* freezer sets TIF_FREEZE for the task
* task calls try_to_freeze() and goes to the refrigerator, which is wrong at
that pointThis requires us to acquire task_lock(p) before p->flags.PF_BORROWED_MM and
p->mm are examined and release it after TIF_FREEZE is set for p (or it turns
out that TIF_FREEZE should not be set).Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy
Cc: Pavel Machek
Cc: Nigel Cunningham
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
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
24 May, 2007
4 commits
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Other than refrigerator, no one else calls frozen_process(). So move it from
include/linux/freezer.h to kernel/power/process.c.Also, since a task can be marked as frozen by itself, we don't need to pass
the (struct task_struct *p) parameter to frozen_process().Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Pavel Machek
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch fixes the race pointed out by Oleg Nesterov.
* Freezer marks a thread as freezeable.
* The thread now marks itself PF_NOFREEZE, but it will be frozen on
on calling try_to_freeze(). Thus the task is frozen, even though it doesn't
want to.
* Subsequent thaw_processes() will also fail to thaw the task since it is
marked PF_NOFREEZE.Avoid this problem by checking the task's PF_NOFREEZE status in
frozen_processes() before marking the task as frozen.Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Pavel Machek
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Currently try_to_freeze_tasks() has to wait until all of the vforked processes
exit and for this reason every user can make it fail. To fix this problem we
can introduce the additional process flag PF_FREEZER_SKIP to be used by tasks
that do not want to be counted as freezable by the freezer and want to have
TIF_FREEZE set nevertheless. Then, this flag can be set by tasks using
sys_vfork() before they call wait_for_completion(&vfork) and cleared after
they have woken up. After clearing it, the tasks should call try_to_freeze()
as soon as possible.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Pavel Machek
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
If the freezing of tasks fails and a task is preempted in refrigerator()
before calling frozen_process(), then thaw_tasks() may run before this task is
frozen. In that case the task will freeze and no one will thaw it.To fix this race we can call freezing(current) in refrigerator() along with
frozen_process(current) under the task_lock() which also should be taken in
the error path of try_to_freeze_tasks() as well as in thaw_process().
Moreover, if thaw_process() additionally clears TIF_FREEZE for tasks that are
not frozen, we can be sure that all tasks are thawed and there are no pending
"freeze" requests after thaw_tasks() has run.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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Currently, to tell a task that it should go to the refrigerator, we set the
PF_FREEZE flag for it and send a fake signal to it. Unfortunately there
are two SMP-related problems with this approach. First, a task running on
another CPU may be updating its flags while the freezer attempts to set
PF_FREEZE for it and this may leave the task's flags in an inconsistent
state. Second, there is a potential race between freeze_process() and
refrigerator() in which freeze_process() running on one CPU is reading a
task's PF_FREEZE flag while refrigerator() running on another CPU has just
set PF_FROZEN for the same task and attempts to reset PF_FREEZE for it. If
the refrigerator wins the race, freeze_process() will state that PF_FREEZE
hasn't been set for the task and will set it unnecessarily, so the task
will go to the refrigerator once again after it's been thawed.To solve first of these problems we need to stop using PF_FREEZE to tell
tasks that they should go to the refrigerator. Instead, we can introduce a
special TIF_*** flag and use it for this purpose, since it is allowed to
change the other tasks' TIF_*** flags and there are special calls for it.To avoid the freeze_process()-refrigerator() race we can make
freeze_process() to always check the task's PF_FROZEN flag after it's read
its "freeze" flag. We should also make sure that refrigerator() will
always reset the task's "freeze" flag after it's set PF_FROZEN for it.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Cc: Russell King
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Paul Mundt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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freezer.h uses task_struct fields so it should include sched.h.
CC [M] fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.o
In file included from fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c:49:
include/linux/freezer.h: In function 'frozen':
include/linux/freezer.h:9: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
include/linux/freezer.h:9: error: 'PF_FROZEN' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/linux/freezer.h:9: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
include/linux/freezer.h:9: error: for each function it appears in.)
include/linux/freezer.h: In function 'freezing':
include/linux/freezer.h:17: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
include/linux/freezer.h:17: error: 'PF_FREEZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/linux/freezer.h: In function 'freeze':
include/linux/freezer.h:26: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
include/linux/freezer.h:26: error: 'PF_FREEZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/linux/freezer.h: In function 'do_not_freeze':
include/linux/freezer.h:34: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
include/linux/freezer.h:34: error: 'PF_FREEZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/linux/freezer.h: In function 'thaw_process':
include/linux/freezer.h:43: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
include/linux/freezer.h:43: error: 'PF_FROZEN' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/linux/freezer.h:44: warning: implicit declaration of function 'wake_up_process'
include/linux/freezer.h: In function 'frozen_process':
include/linux/freezer.h:55: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
include/linux/freezer.h:55: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
include/linux/freezer.h:55: error: 'PF_FREEZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/linux/freezer.h:55: error: 'PF_FROZEN' undeclared (first use in this function)
fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c: In function 'freezing':
include/linux/freezer.h:18: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
make[2]: *** [fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.o] Error 1Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Dec, 2006
3 commits
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Move the loop from thaw_processes() to a separate function and call it
independently for kernel threads and user space processes so that the order
of thawing tasks is clearly visible.Drop thaw_kernel_threads() which is never used.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Cc: Pavel Machek
Cc: Nigel Cunningham
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Modify process thawing so that we can thaw kernel space without thawing
userspace, and thaw kernelspace first. This will be useful in later
patches, where I intend to get swsusp thawing kernel threads only before
seeking to free memory.Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham
Cc: Pavel Machek
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so
that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require
recompiling just about everything.[akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver]
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Cc: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
