On Thursday 07 May 2009, Matt Helsley wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 12:41:04AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > The OOM killer is not really going to work while tasks are frozen, so
> > we can just give up calling it in that case.
> >
> > This will allow us to safely use memory allocations for decreasing
> > the number of saveable pages in the hibernation core code instead of
> > using any artificial memory shriking mechanisms for this purpose.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
>
>
> > ---
> > include/linux/freezer.h | 2 ++
> > kernel/power/process.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> > mm/page_alloc.c | 5 +++++
> > 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/power/process.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/power/process.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/power/process.c
> > @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
> > */
> > #define TIMEOUT (20 * HZ)
> >
> > +static bool tasks_frozen;
> > +
> > static inline int freezeable(struct task_struct * p)
> > {
> > if ((p == current) ||
> > @@ -120,6 +122,10 @@ int freeze_processes(void)
> > Exit:
> > BUG_ON(in_atomic());
> > printk("\n");
> > +
> > + if (!error)
> > + tasks_frozen = true;
> > +
>
> It's not really about whether some tasks are frozen -- that can
> happen using the cgroup freezer too. The flag really indicates if
> all killable tasks are frozen. That can't happen using the cgroup
> freezer since the root cgroup can't be frozen. So I think some name changes
> are in order but otherwise the patch looks fine.
Well, as I said in the [0/5] message, I'm not sure if the patch is really
necessary. I'll change the names if it turns out to be.
Thanks,
Rafael
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