From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: vatsa@in.ibm.com
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, paulmck@us.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu,
dipankar@in.ibm.com, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 1/4] freezer-cpu-hotplug core
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:29:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702161029.21560.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070216081209.GB2829@in.ibm.com>
On Friday, 16 February 2007 09:12, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:46:17PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> > frozen. The only exception is cleaning up of per-cpu threads (which is
> > not possible with processes frozen - if we can find a way to make that
> > possible, then everything can be done in CPU_DEAD).
>
> How abt a patch like below?
>
>
> --- process.c.org 2007-02-16 13:38:39.000000000 +0530
> +++ process.c 2007-02-16 13:38:59.000000000 +0530
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ void refrigerator(void)
> recalc_sigpending(); /* We sent fake signal, clean it up */
> spin_unlock_irq(¤t->sighand->siglock);
>
> - while (frozen(current)) {
> + while (frozen(current) && !kthread_should_stop()) {
> current->state = TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE;
> schedule();
> }
>
> This should let us do kthread_stop() in CPU_DEAD itself (while processes
> are frozen)? That would allow us to do everything from CPU_DEAD itself
> (and not have CPU_DEAD_KILL_THREADS).
Well, the suspend code has been developed with the assumption that frozen
threads stay frozen until _we_ let them thaw by calling thaw_processes(). I'm
a bit afraid of this change.
Greetings,
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-16 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-14 14:40 [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug Gautham R Shenoy
2007-02-14 14:42 ` [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 1/4] freezer-cpu-hotplug core Gautham R Shenoy
2007-02-14 14:43 ` [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 2/4] Revert changes to workqueue.c Gautham R Shenoy
2007-02-14 14:43 ` [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 3/4] Revert changes to sched.c and slab.c Gautham R Shenoy
2007-02-14 14:44 ` [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 4/4] Rip out lock_cpu_hotplug from linux Gautham R Shenoy
2007-02-14 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 2/4] Revert changes to workqueue.c Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-14 15:24 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-14 20:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-14 20:09 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-16 5:26 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-16 15:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-16 16:47 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-16 18:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-16 23:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-17 2:29 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-17 21:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-20 15:12 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-20 20:09 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-21 6:29 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-21 14:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-21 14:37 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-02-21 15:53 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-14 15:31 ` [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 1/4] freezer-cpu-hotplug core Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-14 19:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-16 6:48 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-16 15:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-14 20:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-16 7:16 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-16 8:12 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-16 9:29 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2007-02-16 9:59 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-16 11:06 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-16 19:46 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-17 2:31 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-02-17 5:32 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-02-17 11:19 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-02-16 16:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-14 21:43 ` [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-15 6:34 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-02-15 8:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-15 12:20 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-02-15 13:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-15 14:25 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-02-17 11:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-17 21:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-17 22:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-17 23:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-17 23:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-18 10:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-18 11:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-18 12:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-18 14:52 ` freezer problems Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-18 15:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-18 16:19 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-18 18:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-18 18:56 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-18 22:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-18 23:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-19 20:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-19 21:21 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-19 22:41 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-19 23:35 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-20 0:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-20 0:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-20 0:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-20 18:28 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-20 18:29 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-21 18:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-02-21 18:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-21 18:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-02-21 20:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-21 20:47 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-21 21:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-02-21 23:10 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-22 10:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-22 11:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-22 17:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-22 17:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-22 21:56 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-23 18:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-23 3:02 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-02-18 15:09 ` [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-18 16:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-18 18:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-18 10:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-18 11:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-18 12:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-18 15:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-18 12:56 ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-21 14:52 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-02-21 19:42 ` Pavel Machek
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2007-02-23 19:03 ` freezer problems Gautham R Shenoy
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