On 02/14, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
>
> We don't need to call freezer_do_not_count() for in-kernel users
> of CLONE_VFORK since exec will get called in bounded time.
OK,
> We don't want to call freezer_count() for in-kernel users because
> they may be holding locks.
Who? We should not do this anyway. And __call_usermodehelper() doesn't
afaics.
OK, its caller (process_one_work) does lock_map_acquire() for debugging
purposes, this can "confuse" print_held_locks_bug(). But this thread is
PF_NOFREEZE ?
> @@ -722,9 +722,11 @@ static int wait_for_vfork_done(struct task_struct *child,
> {
> int killed;
>
> - freezer_do_not_count();
> + if (current->mm)
> + freezer_do_not_count();
And if you want to exclude in-kernel users, then perhaps PF_KTHREAD check
will look a bit better.
Oleg.
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