netdev - [PATCH v3 15/16] sigtimedwait: use freezable blocking call

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Date:	Mon,  6 May 2013 16:50:20 -0700
From:	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 15/16] sigtimedwait: use freezable blocking call

Avoid waking up every thread sleeping in a sigtimedwait call during
suspend and resume by calling a freezable blocking call.  Previous
patches modified the freezer to avoid sending wakeups to threads
that are blocked in freezable blocking calls.

This call was selected to be converted to a freezable call because
it doesn't hold any locks or release any resources when interrupted
that might be needed by another freezing task or a kernel driver
during suspend, and is a common site where idle userspace tasks are
blocked.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>
---
 kernel/signal.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 598dc06..10a70a0 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2845,7 +2845,7 @@ int do_sigtimedwait(const sigset_t *which, siginfo_t *info,
 		recalc_sigpending();
 		spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
 
-		timeout = schedule_timeout_interruptible(timeout);
+		timeout = freezable_schedule_timeout_interruptible(timeout);
 
 		spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
 		__set_task_blocked(tsk, &tsk->real_blocked);
-- 
1.8.2.1

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