Re: which signal is sent to freeze process?

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Monday, 23 July 2007 22:57, Agarwal, Lomesh wrote:
> Why do you need try_to_freeze in below patch? Shouldn't
> !freezing(current) checking is enough?

The try_to_freeze() is needed so that the process doesn't block the freezing
of tasks (it is supposed to call refrigerator() as soon as reasonably possible
when freezing(current) is true).

Alternatively, we might return 0 from do_sys_poll() if do_poll() has
returned 0 and both signal_pending(current) and freezing(current) are
true.  Below is a patch that implements that.  Could you please try it?

Greetings,
Rafael


---
 fs/select.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/fs/select.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1.orig/fs/select.c
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/fs/select.c
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ int do_sys_poll(struct pollfd __user *uf
 		walk = walk->next;
   	}
 	err = fdcount;
-	if (!fdcount && signal_pending(current))
+	if (!fdcount && (signal_pending(current) && !freezing(current)))
 		err = -EINTR;
 out_fds:
 	walk = head;