Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default

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 <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

7 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index 8b0cbf4..bd0f2f2 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -849,6 +849,7 @@ static int cifs_oplock_thread(void * dummyarg)
 	__u16  netfid;
 	int rc;
 
+	set_freezable();
 	do {
 		if (try_to_freeze()) 
 			continue;
diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index f4e9266..0a1b8bd 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ cifs_demultiplex_thread(struct TCP_Server_Info *server)
 			GFP_KERNEL);
 	}
 
+	set_freezable();
 	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
 		if (try_to_freeze())
 			continue;
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/background.c b/fs/jffs2/background.c
index 0c82dfc..143c553 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/background.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/background.c
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
 
 	set_user_nice(current, 10);
 
+	set_freezable();
 	for (;;) {
 		allow_signal(SIGHUP);
 
diff --git a/fs/lockd/svc.c b/fs/lockd/svc.c
index 2680932..9fcdef5 100644
--- a/fs/lockd/svc.c
+++ b/fs/lockd/svc.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <linux/smp.h>
 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/freezer.h>
 
 #include <linux/sunrpc/types.h>
 #include <linux/sunrpc/stats.h>
@@ -119,6 +120,7 @@ lockd(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	complete(&lockd_start_done);
 
 	daemonize("lockd");
+	set_freezable();
 
 	/* Process request with signals blocked, but allow SIGKILL.  */
 	allow_signal(SIGKILL);
diff --git a/fs/nfs/callback.c b/fs/nfs/callback.c
index 75f309c..a796be5 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/callback.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/callback.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/sunrpc/svcsock.h>
 #include <linux/nfs_fs.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/freezer.h>
 
 #include <net/inet_sock.h>
 
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ static void nfs_callback_svc(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	daemonize("nfsv4-svc");
 	/* Process request with signals blocked, but allow SIGKILL.  */
 	allow_signal(SIGKILL);
+	set_freezable();
 
 	complete(&nfs_callback_info.started);
 
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
index ff55950..5c8192b 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
+#include <linux/freezer.h>
 #include <linux/fs_struct.h>
 
 #include <linux/sunrpc/types.h>
@@ -432,6 +433,7 @@ nfsd(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	 * dirty pages.
 	 */
 	current->flags |= PF_LESS_THROTTLE;
+	set_freezable();
 
 	/*
 	 * The main request loop
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
index 06894cf..4528f9a 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
@@ -562,6 +562,7 @@ xfssyncd(
 	bhv_vfs_sync_work_t	*work, *n;
 	LIST_HEAD		(tmp);
 
+	set_freezable();
 	timeleft = xfs_syncd_centisecs * msecs_to_jiffies(10);
 	for (;;) {
 		timeleft = schedule_timeout_interruptible(timeleft);