linux/drivers/md
Rafael J. Wysocki 8314418629 Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
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>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
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raid6test [PATCH] RAID6 Altivec fix 2005-09-17 11:49:58 -07:00
.gitignore gitignore: misc files 2006-01-01 22:21:50 +01:00
bitmap.c md: don't write more than is required of the last page of a bitmap 2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
dm-bio-list.h dm: bio_list prefetch removal 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-bio-record.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dm-crypt.c dm: disable barriers 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-delay.c dm delay: cleanup 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-emc.c [PATCH] struct path: rename DM's struct path 2006-12-08 08:28:40 -08:00
dm-exception-store.c dm snapshot: permit invalid activation 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-hw-handler.c BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-hw-handler.c 2006-03-24 18:36:27 +01:00
dm-hw-handler.h dm mpath: log device name 2007-05-09 12:30:46 -07:00
dm-io.c dm io: fix panic on large request 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-io.h dm io: remove old interface 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
dm-ioctl.c [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 4 2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
dm-linear.c [PATCH] dm: map and endio symbolic return codes 2006-12-08 08:29:09 -08:00
dm-log.c dm log: fix resume failed log device 2007-05-09 12:30:48 -07:00
dm-log.h [PATCH] dm: log: rename complete_resync_work 2006-12-08 08:29:09 -08:00
dm-mpath-rdac.c dm mpath: rdac 2007-07-12 15:01:23 -07:00
dm-mpath.c dm: disable barriers 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-mpath.h [PATCH] struct path: rename DM's struct path 2006-12-08 08:28:40 -08:00
dm-path-selector.c BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-path-selector.c 2006-03-26 18:21:58 +02:00
dm-path-selector.h [PATCH] struct path: rename DM's struct path 2006-12-08 08:28:40 -08:00
dm-raid1.c dm raid1: handle log failure 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-round-robin.c dm: remove duplicate module name from error msgs 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-snap.c dm: disable barriers 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-snap.h dm: use kmem_cache macro 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-stripe.c [PATCH] dm: map and endio symbolic return codes 2006-12-08 08:29:09 -08:00
dm-table.c dm: allow offline devices 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
dm-target.c [PATCH] dm: improve error message consistency 2006-06-26 09:58:36 -07:00
dm-zero.c [PATCH] dm: map and endio symbolic return codes 2006-12-08 08:29:09 -08:00
dm.c dm: disable barriers 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm.h dm: add ratelimit logging macros 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
faulty.c [PATCH] md: Don't assume that READ==0 and WRITE==1 - use the names explicitly 2006-12-13 09:05:48 -08:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop 2007-07-13 10:52:27 -07:00
kcopyd.c dm: use kmem_cache macro 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
kcopyd.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
linear.c md: fix bug with linear hot-add and elsewhere 2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop 2007-07-13 10:52:27 -07:00
md.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
mktables.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
multipath.c [PATCH] md: fix up maintenance of ->degraded in multipath 2006-10-28 11:30:51 -07:00
raid0.c md: avoid overflow in raid0 calculation with large components 2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
raid1.c md: fix bug in error handling during raid1 repair 2007-06-16 13:16:15 -07:00
raid5.c md: remove raid5 compute_block and compute_parity5 2007-07-13 08:06:18 -07:00
raid6.h [PATCH] RAID6 Altivec fix 2005-09-17 11:49:58 -07:00
raid6algos.c [PATCH] drivers/md/raid6algos.c: fix a NULL dereference 2006-06-23 07:43:08 -07:00
raid6altivec.uc [PATCH] RAID6 Altivec fix 2005-09-17 11:49:58 -07:00
raid6int.uc Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
raid6mmx.c [PATCH] md: RAID6: clean up CPUID and FPU enter/exit code 2007-03-01 14:53:36 -08:00
raid6recov.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
raid6sse1.c [PATCH] md: RAID6: clean up CPUID and FPU enter/exit code 2007-03-01 14:53:36 -08:00
raid6sse2.c [PATCH] md: RAID6: clean up CPUID and FPU enter/exit code 2007-03-01 14:53:36 -08:00
raid6x86.h [PATCH] md: RAID6: clean up CPUID and FPU enter/exit code 2007-03-01 14:53:36 -08:00
raid10.c md: fix two raid10 bugs 2007-06-16 13:16:15 -07:00
unroll.pl Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00