From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
arve@android.com, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] af_unix: use freezable blocking calls in read
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:08:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130503000812.GY19814@mtj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367458508-9133-11-git-send-email-ccross@android.com>
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 06:35:08PM -0700, Colin Cross wrote:
> Avoid waking up every thread sleeping in read call on an AF_UNIX
> socket during suspend and resume by calling a freezable blocking
> call. Previous patches modified the freezer to avoid sending
> wakeups to threads that are blocked in freezable blocking calls.
>
> This call was selected to be converted to a freezable call because
> it doesn't hold any locks or release any resources when interrupted
> that might be needed by another freezing task or a kernel driver
> during suspend, and is a common site where idle userspace tasks are
> blocked.
Heh, so you are aware of the deadlock possibilities. Good selection
of spots. For all the conversion patches.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-03 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-02 1:34 [PATCH v2 00/10] optimize freezing tasks by reducing task wakeups Colin Cross
2013-05-02 1:34 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] freezer: shorten freezer sleep time using exponential backoff Colin Cross
2013-05-02 23:20 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-02 1:35 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] freezer: skip waking up tasks with PF_FREEZER_SKIP set Colin Cross
2013-05-02 23:24 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-03 9:24 ` Pavel Machek
2013-05-02 1:35 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] freezer: add new freezable helpers using freezer_do_not_count() Colin Cross
2013-05-02 23:55 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-03 0:03 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-03 2:16 ` Colin Cross
2013-05-03 2:41 ` Colin Cross
2013-05-03 4:09 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-03 4:12 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-03 4:17 ` Colin Cross
2013-05-03 4:20 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-03 14:18 ` Alan Stern
2013-05-03 16:54 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-02 1:35 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] binder: use freezable blocking calls Colin Cross
2013-05-02 1:35 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] epoll: use freezable blocking call Colin Cross
2013-05-02 1:35 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] select: " Colin Cross
2013-05-02 1:35 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] futex: " Colin Cross
2013-05-02 19:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-05-03 3:12 ` Darren Hart
2013-06-25 21:15 ` [tip:core/locking] futex: Use " tip-bot for Colin Cross
2013-05-02 1:35 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] nanosleep: use " Colin Cross
2013-05-02 19:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-05-02 1:35 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] sigtimedwait: " Colin Cross
2013-05-02 1:35 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] af_unix: use freezable blocking calls in read Colin Cross
2013-05-03 0:08 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2013-05-04 19:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-05-04 20:39 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-04 22:23 ` Colin Cross
2013-05-05 11:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-05-02 21:06 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] optimize freezing tasks by reducing task wakeups Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-05-03 0:10 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-03 11:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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