linux/net/core
Rafael J. Wysocki 8314418629 Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
..
datagram.c [NET]: Revert sk_buff walker cleanups. 2007-04-27 15:21:23 -07:00
dev_mcast.c [NET]: dev_mcast: add multicast list synchronization helpers 2007-07-14 18:52:02 -07:00
dev.c [NET]: Add macvlan driver 2007-07-14 18:55:06 -07:00
dst.c [NET]: Merge dst_discard_in and dst_discard_out. 2007-06-07 13:39:46 -07:00
ethtool.c [NET]: Add ethtool support for NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM devices. 2007-07-14 19:07:52 -07:00
fib_rules.c
filter.c
flow.c Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
gen_estimator.c [NET]: Fix gen_estimator timer removal race 2007-07-10 22:19:03 -07:00
gen_stats.c
iovec.c
kmap_skb.h
link_watch.c [NET] link_watch: Always schedule urgent events 2007-05-10 23:45:28 -07:00
Makefile
neighbour.c [NETLINK]: Mark netlink policies const 2007-06-07 13:40:10 -07:00
net-sysfs.c [NET]: Fix race condition about network device name allocation. 2007-05-19 15:39:25 -07:00
netevent.c [NET]: net/core/netevent.c should #include <net/netevent.h> 2007-07-05 17:40:27 -07:00
netpoll.c Revert "[NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll." 2007-07-16 14:31:08 -07:00
pktgen.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
request_sock.c
rtnetlink.c [RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link: allow specifying initial device address 2007-07-11 19:45:36 -07:00
scm.c O_CLOEXEC for SCM_RIGHTS 2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
skbuff.c [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add TRACE target 2007-07-10 22:17:14 -07:00
sock.c [NET]: "wrong timeout value in sk_wait_data()": cleanups 2007-07-10 22:18:50 -07:00
stream.c
sysctl_net_core.c [XFRM]: Allow XFRM_ACQ_EXPIRES to be tunable via sysctl. 2007-05-31 01:23:23 -07:00
user_dma.c [NET]: Revert sk_buff walker cleanups. 2007-04-27 15:21:23 -07:00
utils.c [NET]: parse ip:port strings correctly in in4_pton 2007-05-31 01:23:27 -07:00