From 831441862956fffa17b9801db37e6ea1650b0f69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:03:35 -0700 Subject: Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Gautham R Shenoy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/pdflush.c | 1 + mm/vmscan.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/pdflush.c b/mm/pdflush.c index 8ce0900dc95..8f6ee073c0e 100644 --- a/mm/pdflush.c +++ b/mm/pdflush.c @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ struct pdflush_work { static int __pdflush(struct pdflush_work *my_work) { current->flags |= PF_FLUSHER | PF_SWAPWRITE; + set_freezable(); my_work->fn = NULL; my_work->who = current; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&my_work->list); diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 2225b7c9df8..d419e10e3da 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1421,6 +1421,7 @@ static int kswapd(void *p) * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place). */ tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD; + set_freezable(); order = 0; for ( ; ; ) { -- cgit v1.2.3