Hi,
On Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:27, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > >(2) the race between the delivery of
> > > > the continuation signal and the freezer is damn hard to trigger (still
> > > > I think
> > > > I can wirte some artificial code that would trigger this, although it
> > > > would
> > > > involve a kernel thread sending SIGCONT to a user space process -
> > > > provided
> > > > it's permissible ;-)).
> > >
> > > It is not really permissible, but I do not see how it would hurt...
> > >
> > > With that patch, we put TASK_STOPPED tasks into refrigerator, along
> > > with everyone else. SIGCONT is *not* going to help them out of
> > > refrigerator.
> > >
> > > We also ignore TASK_STOPPED now, so we'll not proceed until all
> > > stopped tasks are in refrigerator.
> > >
> > > Now... I'm not 100% sure I got the ptrace() cases right (and did not
> > > test that)... but TASK_STOPPED cases look pretty trivial to me now.
> >
> > Please note that currently (and with your patch) freezeable() returns 0 for
>
> I cerainly wanted freezable to return 1 for TASK_STOPPED... and I
> think this part of my patch should be doing it...?
>
>
> diff --git a/kernel/power/process.c b/kernel/power/process.c
> index 7bcc976..d56e494 100644
> --- a/kernel/power/process.c
> +++ b/kernel/power/process.c
> @@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ static inline int freezeable(struct task
> (p->flags & PF_NOFREEZE) ||
> (p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) ||
> (p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD) ||
> - ((p->exit_state == TASK_TRACED) && frozen(p->parent)) ||
> - (p->state == TASK_STOPPED))
> + ((p->exit_state == TASK_TRACED) && frozen(p->parent)))
> return 0;
> return 1;
> }
Ah, I didn't notice, sorry.
You should add
(p->exit_state == TASK_TRACED && p->parent->state == TASK_STOPPED) here
too, I think.
Also, have you verified that stopped tasks don't go to the refrigerator after
thaw_processes() is called?
Greetings,
Rafael
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