Re: kthread, signals and PF_FREEZE (suspend)

[Jamie Lokier]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> > That means that signal_pending() will return true for that process which
> > will make kthread stop the thread.
> 
> Yes, the way they are currently coded.  I had assumed that spurious
> signals do not occur.

Yowch.  Does suspend mean this warning in futex_wait is wrong?

	/* A spurious wakeup should never happen. */
	WARN_ON(!signal_pending(current));
	return -EINTR;

-- Jamie
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