From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Colin Cross Subject: Re: 3.11-rc regression bisected: s2disk does not work (was Re: [PATCH v3 13/16] futex: use freezable blocking call) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:42:49 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1367884221-20462-1-git-send-email-ccross@android.com> <1367884221-20462-14-git-send-email-ccross@android.com> <20130723010250.5a3465ec@xenia.leun.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Michael Leun , lkml , Pavel Machek , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Mandeep Singh Baines , Oleg Nesterov , linux-nfs , Linux PM list , netdev , Tejun Heo , Darren Hart , Thomas Gleixner , Randy Dunlap , Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-nfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Colin Cross wrote: >> >> I think the right solution is to add a flag to the freezing task that >> marks it unfreezable. I think PF_NOFREEZE would work, although it is >> normally used on kernel threads, can you see if the attached patch >> helps? > > Hmm. That does seem to be the right thing to do, but I wonder about > the *other* callers of freeze_processes() IOW, kexec and friends. > > So maybe we should do this in {freeze|thaw}_processes() itself, and > just make the rule be that the caller of freeze_processes() itself is > obviously not frozen, and has to be the same one that then thaws > things? > > Colin? Rafael? Comments? > > Linus I was worried about clearing the flag in thaw_processes(). If a kernel thread with PF_NOFREEZE set ever called thaw_processes(), which autosleep might do, it would clear the flag. Or if a different thread called freeze_processes() and thaw_processes(). All the other callers besides the SNAPSHOT_FREEZE ioctl stay in the kernel between freeze_processes() and thaw_processes(), which makes the fanout of places that could call try_to_freeze() much more controllable. Using a new flag that operates like PF_NOFREEZE but doesn't conflict with it, or a nofreeze_depth counter, would also work. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html