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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH pm-freezer 3/4] freezer: check freezing() before leaving FROZEN state
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:21:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110829172132.GA12191@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110829171228.GA11339@redhat.com>

On 08/29, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Hmm. But I got lost a bit. Why do we need freezer_lock to set/clear
> PF_FROZEN ? OK, the code below takes freezer_lock for freezing().
> Is there any other reason?

Ah, at least we need it to serialize with __thaw_task() which does
"if (frozen) wake_up()".

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-29 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-29 14:04 [PATCH pm-freezer 1/4] cgroup_freezer: fix freezer->state setting bug in freezer_change_state() Tejun Heo
2011-08-29 14:05 ` [PATCH pm-freezer 2/4] freezer: set PF_NOFREEZE on a dying task right before TASK_DEAD Tejun Heo
2011-08-29 14:05   ` [PATCH pm-freezer 3/4] freezer: check freezing() before leaving FROZEN state Tejun Heo
2011-08-29 14:06     ` [PATCH pm-freezer 4/4] freezer: use lock_task_sighand() in fake_signal_wake_up() Tejun Heo
2011-08-29 16:36       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-29 16:35     ` [PATCH pm-freezer 3/4] freezer: check freezing() before leaving FROZEN state Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-29 17:12       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-29 17:21         ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2011-08-29 18:02   ` [PATCH pm-freezer 2/4] freezer: set PF_NOFREEZE on a dying task right before TASK_DEAD Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-29 16:00 ` [PATCH pm-freezer 1/4] cgroup_freezer: fix freezer->state setting bug in freezer_change_state() Oleg Nesterov

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