linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm 7/7] Freezer: Take kernel

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Message-Id: <200703011617.39251.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:17:38 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@...il.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH -mm 7/7] Freezer: Take kernel_execve into consideration

From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>

Kernel threads can become userland processes by calling kernel_execve().  In
particular, this may happen right after try_to_freeze_tasks(FREEZER_USER_SPACE)
has returned, so try_to_freeze_tasks() needs to take userspace processes
into consideration even if it is called with FREEZER_KERNEL_THREADS.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
---
 kernel/power/process.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.20-mm2/kernel/power/process.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.20-mm2.orig/kernel/power/process.c
+++ linux-2.6.20-mm2/kernel/power/process.c
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ static unsigned int try_to_freeze_tasks(
 				cancel_freezing(p);
 				continue;
 			}
-			if (is_user_space(p) == !freeze_user_space)
+			if (freeze_user_space && !is_user_space(p))
 				continue;
 
 			freeze_process(p);
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static unsigned int try_to_freeze_tasks(
 				TIMEOUT / HZ, todo);
 		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 		do_each_thread(g, p) {
-			if (is_user_space(p) == !freeze_user_space)
+			if (freeze_user_space && !is_user_space(p))
 				continue;
 
 			task_lock(p);
-
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