[PATCH 1/3] PM / Sleep: Make [un]lock_system_sleep() generic

Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Dec 5 14:18:53 EST 2011


Hi Oleg,

On 12/06/2011 12:05 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> On 12/05, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>>
>> I looked up in git and found that commit ba96a0c by Rafael introduced the
>> count functions, to handle the vfork case. But now, we seem to have more
>> uses than that. So I think we can remove that userspace restriction in the
>> count functions,
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>> and in kernel/fork.c, do something like:
>>
>> if (current->mm)
>> 	freezer_do_not_count();
>> ...
>> if (current->mm)
>> 	freezer_count();
> 
> see http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=132033335507261
> 
> I think this is not needed, we can just remove the ->mm check.
> CLONE_VFORK is not used by a freezable kthread.
> 


Great! Thanks for the pointer. I'll send a patch to remove that check.

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat




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