linux/drivers/block
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
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aoe [NET]: Rework dev_base via list_head (v3) 2007-05-03 15:13:45 -07:00
paride paride drivers: initialize spinlocks 2007-04-24 08:23:08 -07:00
amiflop.c [PATCH] fix request->cmd == INT cases 2007-07-10 08:03:34 +02:00
ataflop.c IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers 2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
cciss_cmd.h [PATCH] cciss: add support for 1024 logical volumes 2006-12-07 08:39:30 -08:00
cciss_scsi.c [SCSI] cciss: convert to use the data buffer accessors 2007-05-29 11:22:13 -05:00
cciss_scsi.h
cciss.c Fix too few arguments to function `scsi_cmd_ioctl' 2007-07-16 12:11:27 -07:00
cciss.h [PATCH] cciss: add support for 1024 logical volumes 2006-12-07 08:39:30 -08:00
cpqarray.c [PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() calls 2006-12-13 09:05:58 -08:00
cpqarray.h
cryptoloop.c
DAC960.c [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 3 2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
DAC960.h [PATCH] drivers/block/DAC960: convert 'boolean' to 'bool' 2007-02-11 11:18:06 -08:00
floppy.c Off by one in floppy.c 2007-05-23 20:14:15 -07:00
ida_cmd.h
ida_ioctl.h
Kconfig Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block 2007-07-16 10:48:20 -07:00
loop.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block 2007-07-16 10:48:20 -07:00
nbd.c nbd.c: sock_xmit: cleanup signal related code 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
pktcdvd.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
ps2esdi.c IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers 2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
rd.c Fix occurrences of "the the " 2007-05-09 08:57:56 +02:00
smart1,2.h
sunvdc.c [SPARC64]: Abstract out mdesc accesses for better MD update handling. 2007-07-16 04:04:28 -07:00
swim3.c IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers 2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
sx8.c WorkStruct: make allyesconfig 2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
ub.c bsg: add a request_queue argument to scsi_cmd_ioctl() 2007-07-16 08:52:45 +02:00
umem.c umem: Fix match of pci_ids in umem driver 2007-07-16 14:39:07 +02:00
viodasd.c [POWERPC] Fix viodasd geometry calculations 2007-07-10 21:40:28 +10:00
xd.c [PATCH] Use linux/io.h instead of asm/io.h 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
xd.h IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers 2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
z2ram.c drivers/block/z2ram: Remove TRUE/FALSE defines 2007-07-16 09:05:42 -07:00