Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/3] Freezer: Take kernel_execve into consideration

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Feb 26 2007 - 07:47:16 EST


On Mon 2007-02-26 11:49:09, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
>
> Kernel threads can become userland processes by calling kernel_execve(). In
> particular, this may happen right after try_to_freeze_tasks(FREEZER_USER_SPACE)
> has returned, so try_to_freeze_tasks() needs to take userspace processes
> into consideration even if it is called with FREEZER_KERNEL_THREADS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>

ACK.
Pavel

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