Hi! > > This patch is on top of the "Freezer: Avoid freezing kernel threads > > prematurely" > > patch that I posted yestarday, available at > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/25/199 > > (updated version that applies cleanly on top of 2.6.22-rc3, is available at > > http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/hibernation_and_suspend/2.6.22-rc3/patches/07-freezer-avoid-freezing-kernel-threads-prematurely.patch). > > It has been tested on a couple of machines and doesn't seem to break > > anything. > > > > [As you can see there are quite a lot of files affected, so I didn't add all > > maintainers of them to the CC list. In fact, I'm not sure how to handle > > notifying them of the change, so please advise.] > > Does the lack of comments mean that everyone on the CC list agrees with this > approach? ;-) > > In the meantime, it turns out that this patch fixes the hibernation/suspend > problem with cryptd discussed in the thread at > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/26/24 . > > The problem is that cryptd doesn't call try_to_freeze() and doesn't set > PF_NOFREEZE for itself, so the freezer cannot handle it properly. In > principle > we can add either try_to_freeze() or the setting of PF_NOFREEZE to it, but if > the approach in the $subject patch is acceptable, we'll need to remove that > soon. So, what should we do?
I'd add PF_NONFREEZE. Changing the defaults in freezer is obviously not 2.6.22 material. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/