[patch] Fix process freezing

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Aug 26 2005 - 04:42:56 EST


If process freezing fails, some processes are frozen, and rest are
left in "were asked to be frozen" state. Thats wrong, we should leave
it in some consistent state.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>

--- linux-mm/kernel/power/process.c 2005-08-24 20:25:11.000000000 +0200
+++ linux/kernel/power/process.c 2005-08-26 11:30:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -81,13 +81,33 @@
} while_each_thread(g, p);
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
yield(); /* Yield is okay here */
- if (time_after(jiffies, start_time + TIMEOUT)) {
+ if (todo && time_after(jiffies, start_time + TIMEOUT)) {
printk( "\n" );
printk(KERN_ERR " stopping tasks failed (%d tasks remaining)\n", todo );
- return todo;
+ break;
}
} while(todo);

+ /* This does not unfreeze processes that are already frozen
+ * (we have slightly ugly calling convention in that respect,
+ * and caller must call thaw_processes() if something fails),
+ * but it cleans up leftover PF_FREEZE requests.
+ */
+ if (todo) {
+ read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+ do_each_thread(g, p)
+ if (freezing(p)) {
+ pr_debug(" clean up: %s\n", p->comm);
+ p->flags &= ~PF_FREEZE;
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
+ recalc_sigpending_tsk(p);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
+ }
+ while_each_thread(g, p);
+ read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+ return todo;
+ }
+
printk( "|\n" );
BUG_ON(in_atomic());
return 0;

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