Re: [patch 128/197] freezer: add try_to_freeze calls to all kernel threads

2007-05-09 Thread Stefan Richter
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:29, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: >> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:20:47PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >>> Let me point out that the usual process would be [...to do it in one go] >> Well, a couple of RFC's have already been sent with this regard.

Re: [patch 128/197] freezer: add try_to_freeze calls to all kernel threads

2007-05-09 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:29, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:20:47PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > > Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > > > freezer_exempt() as of now does what its name says. I.e, exempt the > > > thread from all kinds of freeze chills. > > > > > > But with more su

Re: [patch 128/197] freezer: add try_to_freeze calls to all kernel threads

2007-05-09 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:20:47PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > > freezer_exempt() as of now does what its name says. I.e, exempt the > > thread from all kinds of freeze chills. > > > > But with more subsystems using the process freezer, the exemption needs > > to be ev

Re: [patch 128/197] freezer: add try_to_freeze calls to all kernel threads

2007-05-09 Thread Stefan Richter
Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > freezer_exempt() as of now does what its name says. I.e, exempt the > thread from all kinds of freeze chills. > > But with more subsystems using the process freezer, the exemption needs > to be event specific. There may be threads which should not be frozen > for say kpr

Re: [patch 128/197] freezer: add try_to_freeze calls to all kernel threads

2007-05-09 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
Hi Stefan, On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:06:05PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > >> > Add try_to_freeze() calls to the remaining kernel threads that do not > >> > call > >> > try_to_freeze() already, although they set PF_NOFREEZE. > >> > > >> > In the future we are going to rep

Re: [patch 128/197] freezer: add try_to_freeze calls to all kernel threads

2007-05-09 Thread Stefan Richter
Pavel Machek wrote: >> > Add try_to_freeze() calls to the remaining kernel threads that do not call >> > try_to_freeze() already, although they set PF_NOFREEZE. >> > >> > In the future we are going to replace PF_NOFREEZE with a set of flags that >> > will be set to indicate in which situations the

Re: [patch 128/197] freezer: add try_to_freeze calls to all kernel threads

2007-05-09 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Add try_to_freeze() calls to the remaining kernel threads that do not call > > try_to_freeze() already, although they set PF_NOFREEZE. > > > > In the future we are going to replace PF_NOFREEZE with a set of flags that > > will be set to indicate in which situations the task should not be

Re: [patch 128/197] freezer: add try_to_freeze calls to all kernel threads

2007-05-09 Thread Stefan Richter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Add try_to_freeze() calls to the remaining kernel threads that do not call > try_to_freeze() already, although they set PF_NOFREEZE. > > In the future we are going to replace PF_NOFREEZE with a set of flags that > will be