linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/16] freezer: don't unnecessarily set PF

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Date:	Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:05:23 +0200
From:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	rjw@...k.pl, menage@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	arnd@...db.de, oleg@...hat.com,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@...fusion.mobi>,
	wwang <wei_wang@...lsil.com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/16] freezer: don't unnecessarily set PF_NOFREEZE
 explicitly

Hi Tejun,

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:16:08PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Some drivers set PF_NOFREEZE in their kthread functions which is
> completely unnecessary and racy - some part of freezer code doesn't
> consider cases where PF_NOFREEZE is set asynchronous to freezer
> operations.
> 
> In general, there's no reason to allow setting PF_NOFREEZE explicitly.
> Remove them and change the documentation to note that setting
> PF_NOFREEZE directly isn't allowed.

For the mfd parts:

Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>

Cheers,
Samuel.

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