Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] nanosleep: use freezable blocking call

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Wed, 1 May 2013, Colin Cross wrote:

> Avoid waking up every thread sleeping in a nanosleep call during
> suspend and resume by calling a freezable blocking call.  Previous
> patches modified the freezer to avoid sending wakeups to threads
> that are blocked in freezable blocking calls.
> 
> This call was selected to be converted to a freezable call because
> it doesn't hold any locks or release any resources when interrupted
> that might be needed by another freezing task or a kernel driver
> during suspend, and is a common site where idle userspace tasks are
> blocked.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

> ---
>  kernel/hrtimer.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c
> index 14be27f..e036276 100644
> --- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
> +++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
> @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
>  #include <linux/sched/sysctl.h>
>  #include <linux/sched/rt.h>
>  #include <linux/timer.h>
> +#include <linux/freezer.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/uaccess.h>
>  
> @@ -1525,7 +1526,7 @@ static int __sched do_nanosleep(struct hrtimer_sleeper *t, enum hrtimer_mode mod
>  			t->task = NULL;
>  
>  		if (likely(t->task))
> -			schedule();
> +			freezable_schedule();
>  
>  		hrtimer_cancel(&t->timer);
>  		mode = HRTIMER_MODE_ABS;
> -- 
> 1.8.2.1
> 
>