Android goes through suspend/resume very often (every few seconds when on a busy wifi network with the screen off), and a significant portion of the energy used to go in and out of suspend is spent in the freezer. If a task has called freezer_do_not_count(), don't bother waking it up. If it happens to wake up later it will call freezer_count() and immediately enter the refrigerator. Combined with patches to convert freezable helpers to use freezer_do_not_count() and convert common sites where idle userspace tasks are blocked to use the freezable helpers, this reduces the time and energy required to suspend and resume. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: move check to freeze_task() kernel/freezer.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/freezer.c b/kernel/freezer.c index c38893b..8b2afc1 100644 --- a/kernel/freezer.c +++ b/kernel/freezer.c @@ -110,6 +110,18 @@ bool freeze_task(struct task_struct *p) { unsigned long flags; + /* + * This check can race with freezer_do_not_count, but worst case that + * will result in an extra wakeup being sent to the task. It does not + * race with freezer_count(), the barriers in freezer_count() and + * freezer_should_skip() ensure that either freezer_count() sees + * freezing == true in try_to_freeze() and freezes, or + * freezer_should_skip() sees !PF_FREEZE_SKIP and freezes the task + * normally. + */ + if (freezer_should_skip(p)) + return false; + spin_lock_irqsave(&freezer_lock, flags); if (!freezing(p) || frozen(p)) { spin_unlock_irqrestore(&freezer_lock, flags); -- 1.8.2.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html