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    SubjectRe: [linux-pm] 2.6.21-rc4-mm1: freezing of processes broken
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    Hi.

    On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 19:23 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
    > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> writes:
    >
    > > On Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:06, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
    > >> On Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:58, Jiri Slaby wrote:
    > >> > Rafael J. Wysocki napsal(a):
    > >> > > Actually, the problem is 100% reproducible on my system too and I doubt
    > > it's
    > >> > > caused by the recent freezer patches.
    > >> >
    > >> > I don't know what exactly do you mean by recent, but 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 works
    > >> > for me.
    > >>
    > >> Thanks for the confirmation.
    > >>
    > >> The patches I was talking about had already been in 2.6.21-rc3-mm2, so the
    > >> reason of this failure must be different.
    > >
    > > Bisection shows that the freezing of processes has been broken by one of the
    > > patches:
    > >
    > > remove-the-likelypid-check-in-copy_process.patch
    >
    > Grr. Oleg's review of remove-the-likelypid-check-in-copy-process
    > showed it to be questionable (and it was just an optimization)
    > so we can get rid of that one easily.
    >
    > Although all it did that was really questionable was add
    > the idle process to the global process list and bump a process
    > count when we forked the idle process. Not dramatically dangerous
    > things.
    >
    > > use-task_pgrp-task_session-in-copy_process.patch
    >
    > As I recall that patch was pretty trivial, and shouldn't have
    > anything to do with the freezer. The process freezer doesn't care
    > about pids does it?

    Could the freezer code be trying to freeze the idle thread as a result?

    Regards,

    Nigel

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