On 02/28, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Wednesday, 28 February 2007 02:23, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:53:14AM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > I think it is good. Srivatsa? > > > > Maybe additional comments on why we don't skip vfork kernel tasks may be > > good. > > Which is because we don't want the kernel threads to be frozen in unexpected > places, so we allow them to block freeze_processes() instead or to set > PF_NOFREEZE?
... and because in fact it won't block freeze_processes(), ____call_usermodehelper (the child) does a minimum before exec/exit, and it can't be frozen until it wakes up the parent. Oleg. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
