1. 24 11月, 2011 2 次提交
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      freezer: fix wait_event_freezable/__thaw_task races · 24b7ead3
      Oleg Nesterov 提交于
      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 == F
      
      Change 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: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      24b7ead3
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      freezer: kill unused set_freezable_with_signal() · 34b087e4
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      34b087e4
  2. 22 11月, 2011 9 次提交
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      freezer: remove unused @sig_only from freeze_task() · 839e3407
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      839e3407
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      freezer: fix set_freezable[_with_signal]() race · 96ee6d85
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      96ee6d85
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      freezer: remove should_send_signal() and update frozen() · 948246f7
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      948246f7
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      freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE · a3201227
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>  (for the cgroup portions)
      a3201227
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      cgroup_freezer: prepare for removal of TIF_FREEZE · 22b4e111
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NPaul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
      Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      22b4e111
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      freezer: clean up freeze_processes() failure path · 03afed8b
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      03afed8b
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      freezer: rename thaw_process() to __thaw_task() and simplify the implementation · a5be2d0d
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
      Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
      a5be2d0d
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      freezer: implement and use kthread_freezable_should_stop() · 8a32c441
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@hmh.eng.br>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      8a32c441
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      freezer: unexport refrigerator() and update try_to_freeze() slightly · a0acae0e
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
      Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
      Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      a0acae0e
  3. 05 11月, 2011 1 次提交
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      PM / Freezer: Reimplement wait_event_freezekillable using freezer_do_not_count/freezer_count · 6f35c4ab
      Oleg Nesterov 提交于
      Commit 27920651 "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 f06ac72e "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 27920651, 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: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      6f35c4ab
  4. 28 10月, 2011 1 次提交
  5. 20 10月, 2011 2 次提交
  6. 17 10月, 2011 1 次提交
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      PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory · 2aede851
      Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
      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: NChristoph <cr2005@u-club.de>
      Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      2aede851
  7. 17 2月, 2011 1 次提交
  8. 27 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      Freezer: Fix buggy resume test for tasks frozen with cgroup freezer · 5a7aadfe
      Matt Helsley 提交于
      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: NOren Ladaan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
      Signed-off-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      5a7aadfe
  9. 31 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  10. 20 10月, 2008 2 次提交
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      container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem · dc52ddc0
      Matt Helsley 提交于
      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/tasks
      
      to get status of the freezer subsystem :
      
         # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
         RUNNING
      
      to freeze all tasks in the container :
      
         # echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state
         # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
         FREEZING
         # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
         FROZEN
      
      to unfreeze all tasks in the container :
      
         # echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state
         # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
         RUNNING
      
      This 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: NCedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Tested-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dc52ddc0
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      container freezer: make refrigerator always available · 8174f150
      Matt Helsley 提交于
      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: NCedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Tested-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8174f150
  11. 17 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      Freezer: Introduce PF_FREEZER_NOSIG · ebb12db5
      Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
      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: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
      ebb12db5
  12. 19 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  13. 30 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND for suspend-to-Ram and standby · 296699de
      Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
      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: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      296699de
  14. 20 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Freezer: avoid freezing kernel threads prematurely · 0c1eecfb
      Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
      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 point
      
      This 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: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0c1eecfb
  15. 18 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default · 83144186
      Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
      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: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Acked-by: NNigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
      Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      83144186
  16. 24 5月, 2007 4 次提交
  17. 14 12月, 2006 1 次提交
    • R
      [PATCH] PM: Fix SMP races in the freezer · 8a102eed
      Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
      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: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8a102eed
  18. 11 12月, 2006 1 次提交
    • R
      [PATCH] freezer.h uses task_struct fields · 5c543eff
      Randy Dunlap 提交于
      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 1
      Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Acked-by: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5c543eff
  19. 08 12月, 2006 3 次提交