From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758064AbXGRHc1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:32:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753444AbXGRHcI (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:32:08 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:52600 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753119AbXGRHcE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:32:04 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH -mm 0/5] Freezer update Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:29:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: LKML , Nigel Cunningham , Oleg Nesterov , Pavel Machek MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707180929.31511.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, The patches in these series update the freezer to eliminate some existing shortcomings, so please consider them as 2.6.23 material. The patches do the following: * update the freezer documentation to describe, previously omitted, important   reason for freezing tasks (ie. memory shrinking) * remove sys_sync() from the freezer and make the suspend/hibernation code   invoke it explicitly * prevent new tasks from inheriting TIF_FREEZE set from the parents * introduce freezer-firendly wrappers around wait_event_interruptible()   and wait_event_interruptible_timeout() * prevent the freezer from sending signals to kernel threads Greetings, Rafael -- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth