Re: [PATCH 09/10] sigtimedwait: use freezable blocking call

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 04/29, Colin Cross wrote:
>
> Avoid waking up every thread sleeping in a sigtimedwait call during
> suspend and resume by calling a freezable blocking call.

This doesn't explain why do want this change...

OK, probably to avoid -EAGAIN from sigtimedwait() if the freezer wakes
up the caller.

> --- a/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -2845,7 +2845,7 @@ int do_sigtimedwait(const sigset_t *which, siginfo_t *info,
>  		recalc_sigpending();
>  		spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
>
> -		timeout = schedule_timeout_interruptible(timeout);
> +		timeout = freezable_schedule_timeout_interruptible(timeout);

And I guess freezable_schedule_timeout_interruptible() is added by
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136727195719575 ...

	+#define freezable_schedule_timeout_interruptible(timeout)		\
	+({									\
	+	long __retval;							\
	+	freezer_do_not_count();						\
	+	__retval = schedule_timeout_interruptible(timeout);		\
	+	freezer_count();						\
	+	__retval;							\
	+})

How this can help?

The task will be interrupted anyway and the syscall will return
-EAGAIN, this only changes the time when try_to_freeze() is called.

For what? The task will call do_signal/try_to_freeze really "soon".

Confused...

Oleg.