From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758563AbXGRHqS (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:46:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752709AbXGRHqG (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:46:06 -0400 Received: from nigel.suspend2.net ([203.171.70.205]:40968 "EHLO nigel.suspend2.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752479AbXGRHqF (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:46:05 -0400 From: Nigel Cunningham Reply-To: nigel@suspend2.net To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/5] Freezer update Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:46:03 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , Oleg Nesterov , Pavel Machek References: <200707180929.31511.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <200707180929.31511.rjw@sisk.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3260681.MHKipcFbQV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707181746.04187.nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart3260681.MHKipcFbQV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="cp 850" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi. On Wednesday 18 July 2007 17:29:30 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, >=20 > The patches in these series update the freezer to eliminate some existing > shortcomings, so please consider them as 2.6.23 material. >=20 > The patches do the following: > * update the freezer documentation to describe, previously omitted,=20 important > =A0 reason for freezing tasks (ie. memory shrinking) > * remove sys_sync() from the freezer and make the suspend/hibernation code > =A0 invoke it explicitly > * prevent new tasks from inheriting TIF_FREEZE set from the parents > * introduce freezer-firendly wrappers around wait_event_interruptible() > =A0 and wait_event_interruptible_timeout() > * prevent the freezer from sending signals to kernel threads I've sent acks for a couple, but not all. No ack for the sys_sync removal because I think this is just a work around = for=20 fuse issues, and fuse should be fixed (getting fuse tasks frozen=20 post-sys_sync makes far more sense to me). No ack for the other patches because I haven't put the time into considerin= g=20 them. Regards, Nigel =2D-=20 See http://www.tuxonice.net for Howtos, FAQs, mailing lists, wiki and bugzilla info. --nextPart3260681.MHKipcFbQV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGncU8N0y+n1M3mo0RAlQPAJ0QUMfXyxpxCnL5ZR3BEcae8iAL5gCgy0Pu P7+znJHR7tac2jfo8O8eM7o= =J4V/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3260681.MHKipcFbQV--