Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/7] Freezer: Fix vfork problem

["Aneesh Kumar" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>]

On 2/25/07, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 February 2007 11:45, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > =========
> --- linux-2.6.20-mm2.orig/kernel/power/process.c        2007-02-22 23:44:04.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.20-mm2/kernel/power/process.c     2007-02-23 22:33:11.000000000 +0100
> @@ -127,22 +127,12 @@ static unsigned int try_to_freeze_tasks(
>                                 cancel_freezing(p);
>                                 continue;
>                         }
> -                       if (is_user_space(p)) {
> -                               if (!freeze_user_space)
> -                                       continue;
> -
> -                               /* Freeze the task unless there is a vfork
> -                                * completion pending
> -                                */
> -                               if (!p->vfork_done)
> -                                       freeze_process(p);
> -                       } else {
> -                               if (freeze_user_space)
> -                                       continue;
> +                       if (is_user_space(p) == !freeze_user_space)
> +                               continue;
>

How about ?
if ( ! (is_user_space(p) == freeze_user_space) )
     continue;


BTW one of the concern that vatsa had was; is it ok to allow some of
the tasks to be left running  ( the parent from vfork ) while
freezing.  I guess we can solve this in a nice way.

in fork.c

if (clone_flags & CLONE_VFORK) {
                        p->vfork_done = &vfork;
                        p->flags |= PF_PARENT_WAKEUP_ON_FREEZE;
                        init_completion(&vfork);
}


and in freeze_process(struct task_struct *p)

if ( p->flags & PF_PARENT_WAKEUP_ON_FREEZE ) {
  wake_up_parent();
}

now parent should be wating for these completion via

wait_for_completion_freezable(); // pavel's implementation.

-aneesh