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Freezer: Introduce PF_FREEZER_NOSIG

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The freezer currently attempts to distinguish kernel threads from
user space tasks by checking if their mm pointer is unset and it
does not send fake signals to kernel threads.  However, there are
kernel threads, mostly related to networking, that behave like
user space tasks and may want to be sent a fake signal to be frozen.

Introduce the new process flag PF_FREEZER_NOSIG that will be set
by default for all kernel threads and make the freezer only send
fake signals to the tasks having PF_FREEZER_NOSIG unset.  Provide
the set_freezable_with_signal() function to be called by the kernel
threads that want to be sent a fake signal for freezing.

This patch should not change the freezer's observable behavior.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-11 22:04:29 +02:00
committed by Andi Kleen
parent d20a4dca47
commit ebb12db51f
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@@ -1494,6 +1494,7 @@ static inline void put_task_struct(struct task_struct *t)
#define PF_MEMPOLICY 0x10000000 /* Non-default NUMA mempolicy */
#define PF_MUTEX_TESTER 0x20000000 /* Thread belongs to the rt mutex tester */
#define PF_FREEZER_SKIP 0x40000000 /* Freezer should not count it as freezeable */
#define PF_FREEZER_NOSIG 0x80000000 /* Freezer won't send signals to it */
/*
* Only the _current_ task can read/write to tsk->flags, but other