linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH(experimental) 2/2] Fix freezer-kthread

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Date:	Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:37:23 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, vatsa@...ibm.com, paulmck@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH(experimental) 2/2] Fix freezer-kthread_stop race

Hi!

> > Of course, running try_to_freeze() in kthread_stop() would be very wrong,
> > so we'd actually need to do it in callers, preferably via a new
> > kthread_stop_freezeable() wrapper.
> > 
> Well, even then we'll need to ensure that a thread would not call
> kthread_stop_freezeable() with any locks held. That would mean more
> audits :)

I'll take audits over 200 new lines of code ;-). (And it should be
reasonably simple to audit; person doing kthread_stop() ->
ktrhread_stop_freezeable() should look after locks).
									Pavel
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