Re: [PATCH 02/10] freezer: skip waking up tasks withPF_FREEZER_SKIP set

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Apr 30 2013 - 13:18:33 EST


On 04/30, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 04/29, Colin Cross wrote:
> >
> > @@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ static int try_to_freeze_tasks(bool user_only)
> > todo = 0;
> > read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> > do_each_thread(g, p) {
> > - if (p == current || !freeze_task(p))
> > + if (p == current || freezer_should_skip(p))
> > continue;
> >
> > - if (!freezer_should_skip(p))
> > + if (freeze_task(p))
> > todo++;
>
> What if we race with freezer_count() ?
>
> try_to_freeze_tasks() can wrongly succeed leaving the running task
> unfrozen, no?

Ah, no, sorry for noise.

Oleg.

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