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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	rjw@sisk.pl, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com,
	aneesh.kumar@gmail.com, drzeus@drzeus.cx, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	ego@in.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com, mingo@elte.hu, neilb@suse.de,
	oleg@tv-sign.ru, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, vatsa@in.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 128/197] freezer: add try_to_freeze calls to all kernel threads
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 14:06:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4641B92D.1030909@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070509104949.GA8164@elf.ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek wrote:
>> > Add try_to_freeze() calls to the remaining kernel threads that do not call
>> > try_to_freeze() already, although they set PF_NOFREEZE.
>> > 
>> > In the future we are going to replace PF_NOFREEZE with a set of flags that
>> > will be set to indicate in which situations the task should not be frozen (for
>> > example, there can be a task that should be frozen for the CPU hotplugging and
>> > should not be frozen for the system suspend).
[...]
>> Why add no-op-try_to_freeze() everywhere now, instead of adding it later
>> when it will actually be needed?  (I.e. "in the future".)
> 
> It is needed later in the patch series... for kprobes, etc.

So does freezer_exempt() still do what its name says, or does it
freezer_exempt_but_not_always() now?
-- 
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-09 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200705090934.l499YTvX019783@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2007-05-09 10:44 ` [patch 128/197] freezer: add try_to_freeze calls to all kernel threads Stefan Richter
2007-05-09 10:49   ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-09 12:06     ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2007-05-09 12:16       ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-05-09 13:20         ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-09 15:29           ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-05-09 18:18             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-05-09 18:48               ` Stefan Richter

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