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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2007-07-17 04:03:35 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-17 10:23:02 -0700
commit831441862956fffa17b9801db37e6ea1650b0f69 (patch)
treeb0334921341f8f1734bdd3243de76d676329d21c /kernel
parent787d2214c19bcc9b6ac48af0ce098277a801eded (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/audit.c1
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c6
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutorture.c4
-rw-r--r--kernel/rtmutex-tester.c1
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/softirq.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/softlockup.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c4
9 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 5ce8851..eb0f916 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ static int kauditd_thread(void *dummy)
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
+ set_freezable();
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
skb = skb_dequeue(&audit_skb_queue);
wake_up(&audit_backlog_wait);
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 5762669..e8af8d0 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
#include <linux/taskstats_kern.h>
#include <linux/delayacct.h>
+#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/cpuset.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/signal.h>
@@ -387,6 +388,11 @@ void daemonize(const char *name, ...)
* they would be locked into memory.
*/
exit_mm(current);
+ /*
+ * We don't want to have TIF_FREEZE set if the system-wide hibernation
+ * or suspend transition begins right now.
+ */
+ current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
set_special_pids(1, 1);
proc_clear_tty(current);
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 7c5c588..ba39bdb 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ static inline void copy_flags(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
{
unsigned long new_flags = p->flags;
- new_flags &= ~(PF_SUPERPRIV | PF_NOFREEZE);
+ new_flags &= ~PF_SUPERPRIV;
new_flags |= PF_FORKNOEXEC;
if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_PTRACE))
p->ptrace = 0;
diff --git a/kernel/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcutorture.c
index 55ba82a..ddff332 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutorture.c
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
+#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
@@ -518,7 +519,6 @@ rcu_torture_writer(void *arg)
VERBOSE_PRINTK_STRING("rcu_torture_writer task started");
set_user_nice(current, 19);
- current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
do {
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
@@ -558,7 +558,6 @@ rcu_torture_fakewriter(void *arg)
VERBOSE_PRINTK_STRING("rcu_torture_fakewriter task started");
set_user_nice(current, 19);
- current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
do {
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1 + rcu_random(&rand)%10);
@@ -589,7 +588,6 @@ rcu_torture_reader(void *arg)
VERBOSE_PRINTK_STRING("rcu_torture_reader task started");
set_user_nice(current, 19);
- current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
do {
idx = cur_ops->readlock();
diff --git a/kernel/rtmutex-tester.c b/kernel/rtmutex-tester.c
index 015fc63..e3055ba 100644
--- a/kernel/rtmutex-tester.c
+++ b/kernel/rtmutex-tester.c
@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ static int test_func(void *data)
int ret;
current->flags |= PF_MUTEX_TESTER;
+ set_freezable();
allow_signal(SIGHUP);
for(;;) {
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 1c80766..cb31fb4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4912,8 +4912,6 @@ static int migration_thread(void *data)
struct migration_req *req;
struct list_head *head;
- try_to_freeze();
-
spin_lock_irq(&rq->lock);
if (cpu_is_offline(cpu)) {
@@ -5147,7 +5145,6 @@ migration_call(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
p = kthread_create(migration_thread, hcpu, "migration/%d", cpu);
if (IS_ERR(p))
return NOTIFY_BAD;
- p->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
kthread_bind(p, cpu);
/* Must be high prio: stop_machine expects to yield to it. */
rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 8de2677..0f546dd 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
+#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
@@ -488,8 +489,6 @@ void __init softirq_init(void)
static int ksoftirqd(void * __bind_cpu)
{
- current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
-
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
diff --git a/kernel/softlockup.c b/kernel/softlockup.c
index 0131e29..708d488 100644
--- a/kernel/softlockup.c
+++ b/kernel/softlockup.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
@@ -116,7 +117,6 @@ static int watchdog(void * __bind_cpu)
struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO-1 };
sched_setscheduler(current, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
- current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
/* initialize timestamp */
touch_softlockup_watchdog();
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index d7d3fa3..1935302 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -282,8 +282,8 @@ static int worker_thread(void *__cwq)
struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq = __cwq;
DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
- if (!cwq->wq->freezeable)
- current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
+ if (cwq->wq->freezeable)
+ set_freezable();
set_user_nice(current, -5);