linux-kernel - Re: freezer problems

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Message-ID: <20070223030224.GA29052@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:32:24 +0530
From:	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	akpm@...l.org, paulmck@...ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu, vatsa@...ibm.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: freezer problems

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 06:03:37PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> Why don't we just drop the warning?  try_to_freeze_tasks() should give us a
> warning if there's anything wrong anyway.

The patches look good. I will add my hotplug changes on the top of
these. 

And yeah, removing the warnings from thaw_processes
sounds like a good thing to me. I was constantly getting warnings like
"Strange, but ksoftirqd/1 was not frozen" when ksoftirqd was created in 
the CPU_UP path from the frozen context! 
I was wondering if freezing the processes created from the
frozen context is a good thing to silence these warnings, but I guess that
would open up some new races.

> 
> Greetings,
> Rafael

regards
gautham.
-- 
Gautham R Shenoy
Linux Technology Center
IBM India.
"Freedom comes with a price tag of responsibility, which is still a bargain,
because Freedom is priceless!"
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