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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/16] freezer: make exiting tasks properly unfreezable
Hello,

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 05:52:21PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > @@ -915,6 +913,12 @@ NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
> >
> > ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT, code);
> >
> > + /*
> > + * With ptrace notification done, there's no point in freezing from
> > + * here on. Disallow freezing.
> > + */
> > + current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
>
> OK, but what PF_NOFREEZE actually means?
>
> Apart from "dont try to freeze" it means "no need to freeze", yes?

Yes.

> IOW, try_to_freeze_tasks() can succeed even if we have a lot of
> exitinig task which can make some activity, say, disk i/o. Is this
> correct?

Hmmm... can it cause disk IOs after that point? I skimmed through and
couldn't spot one (the original code made simliar assumption albeit a
bit later).

Thanks.

--
tejun


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