On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:55:34 +0300 Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 03/21, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:45:16 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:23, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Could the freezer code be trying to freeze the idle thread as a > > > > > result? > > > > > > > > Yes. remove-the-likelypid-check-in-copy_process.patch make idle threads > > > > visible to for_each_process/do_each_thread. Note also that idle threads > > > > have ->mm != NULL. freezer, oom_kill, move_task_off_dead_cpu, etc, > > > > should > > > > not see idle threads, but they do now. > > > > > > Well, I think this is a good enough reason for asking Andrew to drop this > > > patch. > > > > Or we change the freezer to skip pid==0 tasks. > > I strongly disagree. In that case we should audit all users of > for_each_process. > Imho, this change is too dangerous. Actually, I personally think it is very > good > that idle threads are special and not visible, imho we should not change this. OK, I'll tentatively drop remove-the-likelypid-check-in-copy_process.patch > Btw. Rafael, Andrew, what about > > [PATCH] Make XFS workqueues nonfreezable > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117270675922229 > > , don't you think this should go to 2.6.21 ? > I've sent it to the XFS guys a couple of times, but their black hole is one of the deeper ones. David? - 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/
