linux-kernel - Re: Problem with freezable workqueues

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Message-Id: <1172620844.3681.17.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:00:44 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with freezable workqueues

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 01:00 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > > How about other kthread_stop()s ? For example, kernel/softirq.c:cpu_callback() ?
> > 
> > I'd they should be affected as well.
> 
> They won't be, if they have PF_NOFREEZE set.

Yup, I missed that.

johannes

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