Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] freezer: add new freezable helpers usingfreezer_do_not_count()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri May 03 2013 - 12:55:01 EST


On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 10:18:17AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> Don't forget about freezable kernel threads. They never cross the
> kernel/user boundary.

Doesn't really matter for this purpose. They first of all can't be
moved into !root cgroups and thus can't be cgroup-frozen and even if
they could they can't be killed or ptraced, so they just don't play
the same game.

Thanks.

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tejun
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