Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Handle uninterruptible tasks

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On Saturday 07 July 2007 08:56:21 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, 6 July 2007 22:26, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch makes the freezer skip uninterruptible user space tasks (ie. 
such
> > > that have an mm of their own) when counting the tasks to be frozen.  As 
a
> > > result, these tasks have the TIF_FREEZE and TIF_SIGPENDING flags set, 
but the
> > > freezer doesn't wait for them to enter the refrigerator.  Nevertheless, 
they
> > > will enter the refrigerator as soon as they change their state.
> > 
> > A small correction: they will enter the refrigerator on return to 
user-space.
> 
> Yes, I should have written that explicitly.
> 
> > Actually, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE doesn't mean the task actually sleeps. It 
could
> > be running or preempted... I am a bit worried :)
> 
> Fortunately, similar approach has been tested quite extensively by suspend2,
> IIRC. :-)

That's right. I used to signal TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE (I take it the 
INTERRUPTIBLE above is a typo) tasks, but ignore them when deciding whether 
freezing was successful.

I've since dropped those modifications, but only because I'm actively trying 
to get closer to mainline.

Regards,

Nigel
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