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2008-07-16Freezer: Introduce PF_FREEZER_NOSIGRafael J. Wysocki
The freezer currently attempts to distinguish kernel threads from user space tasks by checking if their mm pointer is unset and it does not send fake signals to kernel threads. However, there are kernel threads, mostly related to networking, that behave like user space tasks and may want to be sent a fake signal to be frozen. Introduce the new process flag PF_FREEZER_NOSIG that will be set by default for all kernel threads and make the freezer only send fake signals to the tasks having PF_FREEZER_NOSIG unset. Provide the set_freezable_with_signal() function to be called by the kernel threads that want to be sent a fake signal for freezing. This patch should not change the freezer's observable behavior. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-10-18freezer: introduce freezer-friendly waiting macrosRafael J. Wysocki
Introduce freezer-friendly wrappers around wait_event_interruptible() and wait_event_interruptible_timeout(), originally defined in <linux/wait.h>, to be used in freezable kernel threads. Make some of the freezable kernel threads use them. This is necessary for the freezer to stop sending signals to kernel threads, which is implemented in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-29Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND for suspend-to-Ram and standbyRafael J. Wysocki
Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND representing the ability to enter system sleep states, such as the ACPI S3 state, and allow the user to choose SUSPEND and HIBERNATION independently of each other. Make HOTPLUG_CPU be selected automatically if SUSPEND or HIBERNATION has been chosen and the kernel is intended for SMP systems. Also, introduce CONFIG_PM_SLEEP which is automatically selected if CONFIG_SUSPEND or CONFIG_HIBERNATION is set and use it to select the code needed for both suspend and hibernation. The top-level power management headers and the ACPI code related to suspend and hibernation are modified to use the new definitions (the changes in drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c are, mostly, moving code to reduce the number of ifdefs). There are many other files in which CONFIG_PM can be replaced with CONFIG_PM_SLEEP or even with CONFIG_SUSPEND, but they can be updated in the future. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19Freezer: avoid freezing kernel threads prematurelyRafael J. Wysocki
Kernel threads should not have TIF_FREEZE set when user space processes are being frozen, since otherwise some of them might be frozen prematurely. To prevent this from happening we can (1) make exit_mm() unset TIF_FREEZE unconditionally just after clearing tsk->mm and (2) make try_to_freeze_tasks() check if p->mm is different from zero and PF_BORROWED_MM is unset in p->flags when user space processes are to be frozen. Namely, when user space processes are being frozen, we only should set TIF_FREEZE for tasks that have p->mm different from NULL and don't have PF_BORROWED_MM set in p->flags. For this reason task_lock() must be used to prevent try_to_freeze_tasks() from racing with use_mm()/unuse_mm(), in which p->mm and p->flags.PF_BORROWED_MM are changed under task_lock(p). Also, we need to prevent the following scenario from happening: * daemonize() is called by a task spawned from a user space code path * freezer checks if the task has p->mm set and the result is positive * task enters exit_mm() and clears its TIF_FREEZE * freezer sets TIF_FREEZE for the task * task calls try_to_freeze() and goes to the refrigerator, which is wrong at that point This requires us to acquire task_lock(p) before p->flags.PF_BORROWED_MM and p->mm are examined and release it after TIF_FREEZE is set for p (or it turns out that TIF_FREEZE should not be set). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by defaultRafael J. Wysocki
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23freezer: move frozen_process() to kernel/power/process.cGautham R Shenoy
Other than refrigerator, no one else calls frozen_process(). So move it from include/linux/freezer.h to kernel/power/process.c. Also, since a task can be marked as frozen by itself, we don't need to pass the (struct task_struct *p) parameter to frozen_process(). Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23freezer: fix PF_NOFREEZE vs freezeable raceGautham R Shenoy
This patch fixes the race pointed out by Oleg Nesterov. * Freezer marks a thread as freezeable. * The thread now marks itself PF_NOFREEZE, but it will be frozen on on calling try_to_freeze(). Thus the task is frozen, even though it doesn't want to. * Subsequent thaw_processes() will also fail to thaw the task since it is marked PF_NOFREEZE. Avoid this problem by checking the task's PF_NOFREEZE status in frozen_processes() before marking the task as frozen. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23freezer: fix vfork problemRafael J. Wysocki
Currently try_to_freeze_tasks() has to wait until all of the vforked processes exit and for this reason every user can make it fail. To fix this problem we can introduce the additional process flag PF_FREEZER_SKIP to be used by tasks that do not want to be counted as freezable by the freezer and want to have TIF_FREEZE set nevertheless. Then, this flag can be set by tasks using sys_vfork() before they call wait_for_completion(&vfork) and cleared after they have woken up. After clearing it, the tasks should call try_to_freeze() as soon as possible. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23freezer: close potential race between refrigerator and thaw_tasksRafael J. Wysocki
If the freezing of tasks fails and a task is preempted in refrigerator() before calling frozen_process(), then thaw_tasks() may run before this task is frozen. In that case the task will freeze and no one will thaw it. To fix this race we can call freezing(current) in refrigerator() along with frozen_process(current) under the task_lock() which also should be taken in the error path of try_to_freeze_tasks() as well as in thaw_process(). Moreover, if thaw_process() additionally clears TIF_FREEZE for tasks that are not frozen, we can be sure that all tasks are thawed and there are no pending "freeze" requests after thaw_tasks() has run. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] PM: Fix SMP races in the freezerRafael J. Wysocki
Currently, to tell a task that it should go to the refrigerator, we set the PF_FREEZE flag for it and send a fake signal to it. Unfortunately there are two SMP-related problems with this approach. First, a task running on another CPU may be updating its flags while the freezer attempts to set PF_FREEZE for it and this may leave the task's flags in an inconsistent state. Second, there is a potential race between freeze_process() and refrigerator() in which freeze_process() running on one CPU is reading a task's PF_FREEZE flag while refrigerator() running on another CPU has just set PF_FROZEN for the same task and attempts to reset PF_FREEZE for it. If the refrigerator wins the race, freeze_process() will state that PF_FREEZE hasn't been set for the task and will set it unnecessarily, so the task will go to the refrigerator once again after it's been thawed. To solve first of these problems we need to stop using PF_FREEZE to tell tasks that they should go to the refrigerator. Instead, we can introduce a special TIF_*** flag and use it for this purpose, since it is allowed to change the other tasks' TIF_*** flags and there are special calls for it. To avoid the freeze_process()-refrigerator() race we can make freeze_process() to always check the task's PF_FROZEN flag after it's read its "freeze" flag. We should also make sure that refrigerator() will always reset the task's "freeze" flag after it's set PF_FROZEN for it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] freezer.h uses task_struct fieldsRandy Dunlap
freezer.h uses task_struct fields so it should include sched.h. CC [M] fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.o In file included from fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c:49: include/linux/freezer.h: In function 'frozen': include/linux/freezer.h:9: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/freezer.h:9: error: 'PF_FROZEN' undeclared (first use in this function) include/linux/freezer.h:9: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once include/linux/freezer.h:9: error: for each function it appears in.) include/linux/freezer.h: In function 'freezing': include/linux/freezer.h:17: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/freezer.h:17: error: 'PF_FREEZE' undeclared (first use in this function) include/linux/freezer.h: In function 'freeze': include/linux/freezer.h:26: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/freezer.h:26: error: 'PF_FREEZE' undeclared (first use in this function) include/linux/freezer.h: In function 'do_not_freeze': include/linux/freezer.h:34: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/freezer.h:34: error: 'PF_FREEZE' undeclared (first use in this function) include/linux/freezer.h: In function 'thaw_process': include/linux/freezer.h:43: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/freezer.h:43: error: 'PF_FROZEN' undeclared (first use in this function) include/linux/freezer.h:44: warning: implicit declaration of function 'wake_up_process' include/linux/freezer.h: In function 'frozen_process': include/linux/freezer.h:55: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/freezer.h:55: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/linux/freezer.h:55: error: 'PF_FREEZE' undeclared (first use in this function) include/linux/freezer.h:55: error: 'PF_FROZEN' undeclared (first use in this function) fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c: In function 'freezing': include/linux/freezer.h:18: warning: control reaches end of non-void function make[2]: *** [fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] swsusp: Untangle thaw_processesRafael J. Wysocki
Move the loop from thaw_processes() to a separate function and call it independently for kernel threads and user space processes so that the order of thawing tasks is clearly visible. Drop thaw_kernel_threads() which is never used. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] swsusp: thaw userspace and kernel space separatelyNigel Cunningham
Modify process thawing so that we can thaw kernel space without thawing userspace, and thaw kernelspace first. This will be useful in later patches, where I intend to get swsusp thawing kernel threads only before seeking to free memory. Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.hNigel Cunningham
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require recompiling just about everything. [akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver] Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>