Re: [PATCH -mm 2/7] Freezer: Close theoretical race between refrigerator and thaw_tasks

[Pavel Machek]

On Thu 2007-03-01 16:08:12, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> 
> If the freezing of tasks fails and a task is preempted in refrigerator() before
> calling frozen_process(), then thaw_tasks() may run before this task is frozen.
> In that case the task will freeze and no one will thaw it.
> 
> To fix this race we can call freezing(current) in refrigerator() along with
> frozen_process(current) under the task_lock() which also should be taken in
> the error path of try_to_freeze_tasks() as well as in thaw_process().  Moreover,
> if thaw_process() additionally clears TIF_FREEZE for tasks that are not frozen,
> we can be sure that all tasks are thawed and there are no pending "freeze"
> requests after thaw_tasks() has run.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>

ack.
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