Re: [PATCH] Revert "exec: make de_thread() freezable (was: Re: Linux 4.20-rc4)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

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On Mon 2018-12-03 09:06:18, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 6:17 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > This argument just doesn't make any sense. Rare bugs are maybe even more
> > annoying because you do not expect them to happen.
> 
> Absolutely.
> 
> And valid lockdep complaints are a real issue too.
> 
> So I don't think there's any question that this should be reverted,
> the only question is whether I take the revert directly or get it from
> the PM tree.

I agree this to be reverted. (And the problem is bigger than lockdep,
and apparently not limited to suspend).

But we merged hacky solution because we wanted something simple for
stable, and I don't think that was good idea. (And I'm not sure this
is worth fixing in stable, as we don't have reports of people hitting
that in that kernels).

Best regards,

									Pavel
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