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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing
	processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDING
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:55:55 +0200
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To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
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On Fri 2007-10-19 00:22:35, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> 
> Do not allow processes to clear their TIF_SIGPENDING if TIF_FREEZE is set,
> to prevent them from racing with the freezer (like mysqld does, for example).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

ACK. We want this in 2.6.24.
									Pavel

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