Re: [RFC PATCH] freezer: allow killing of frozen tasks

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 08:22:00 AM Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 02:30:18PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > So, I don't think we can simply turn TASK_UNITERRUPTIBLE to
> > > TASK_KILLABLE at this point.  We really need to strictly define where
> > > a task can freeze before being able to do anything like this.
> > 
> > But we could do that for user space tasks I suppose?
> 
> Even for userland tasks, we don't know where the task is stuck at.  I
> think there are enough freeze points in the kernel which are in the
> middle of something which can be used by userland tasks excuting some
> syscall.  We need to collect all those sites into well defined trap
> points before doing this.

OK, thanks!

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