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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>,
	"'Rafael J. Wysocki'" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	'Pavel Machek' <pavel@ucw.cz>, 'Len Brown' <len.brown@intel.com>,
	'Andrew Morton' <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"'Eric W. Biederman'" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	'Christian Brauner' <christian@brauner.io>,
	'Anna-Maria Gleixner' <anna-maria@linutronix.de>,
	'Alexander Viro' <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	'Seungho Park' <seungho1.park@lge.com>,
	'Inkyu Hwang' <inkyu.hwang@lge.com>,
	'Donghwan Jung' <donghwan.jung@lge.com>,
	'Jongsung Kim' <neidhard.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] exec: make de_thread() freezable
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:37:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181114143705.GB13885@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181114103014.GN23419@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On 11/14, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > I don't understand why it isn't appropriate for exec to block. The
> > exec can freeze. When tasks are thawed, the killed sub-thread will die
> > and wake de_thread(). The exec will continue to work from resume.
>
> Because this is fragile.

I don't really agree, but...

> I haven't checked the full set of resources the
> task holds when in this path but I can imagine we can introduce lock
> dependency on freezing really easily.

And you are right, see another email I sent you a minute ago.

But again, we need to change de_thread to sleep without cred_guard_mutex
anyway, so I think this change is fine. At least in that it can't add the
new problems.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-14 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-12  3:54 [PATCH v2] exec: make de_thread() freezable Chanho Min
2018-11-12  8:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-21 23:35   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-11-12  9:51 ` Pavel Machek
2018-11-13 14:53 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-13 16:18   ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-13 18:00     ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-14 10:18       ` Chanho Min
2018-11-14 10:30         ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-14 14:37           ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2018-11-14 14:29       ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-14 11:31   ` Michal Hocko

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