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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1: freezing of processes broken
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:08:24 -0800
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:55:34 +0300 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> wrote:

> On 03/21, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:45:16 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wr=
ote:
> > =

> > > On Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:23, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > > > =

> > > > > Could the freezer code be trying to freeze the idle thread as a r=
esult?
> > > > =

> > > > Yes. remove-the-likelypid-check-in-copy_process.patch make idle thr=
eads
> > > > visible to for_each_process/do_each_thread. Note also that idle thr=
eads
> > > > have ->mm !=3D NULL. freezer, oom_kill, move_task_off_dead_cpu, etc=
, should
> > > > not see idle threads, but they do now.
> > > =

> > > Well, I think this is a good enough reason for asking Andrew to drop =
this
> > > patch.
> > =

> > Or we change the freezer to skip pid=3D=3D0 tasks.
> =

> I strongly disagree. In that case we should audit all users of for_each_p=
rocess.
> Imho, this change is too dangerous. Actually, I personally think it is ve=
ry good
> that idle threads are special and not visible, imho we should not change =
this.

OK, I'll tentatively drop remove-the-likelypid-check-in-copy_process.patch

> Btw. Rafael, Andrew, what about
> =

> 	[PATCH] Make XFS workqueues nonfreezable
> 	http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=3D117270675922229
> =

> , don't you think this should go to 2.6.21 ?
> =


I've sent it to the XFS guys a couple of times, but their black hole is one
of the deeper ones.

David?