linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] Freezer: Fix vfork problem

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Date:	Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:00:43 +0300
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@...il.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] Freezer: Fix vfork problem

On 02/26, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> The changelog explains it pretty well, I hope, but I have one more comment to
> start with.  Namely, in this version of the patch I've added
> 
> +	if (is_user_space(current))
> +		try_to_freeze();
> 
> to freezer_count() instead of just try_to_freeze().  This way kernel threads
> can avoid being frozen where they don't want to.

In that case we should also modify ____call_usermodehelper(), otherwise we have
the same "deadlock" if it is frozen. But this is not so easy to do as I thought
before.

Oleg.

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