Re: [Patch v4 1/2] freezer: check OOM kill while being frozen

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Michal.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:24:17PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> What do you think about this way to help distinguish kernel threads and
> user processes and keep the future maintenance of freezer saner?

I'm not sure either way.  Please note that we have quite a few
wrappers around try_to_freeze() - freezable_schedule*() and
wait_event_freezable*() - and several places where a userland can be
frozen.  Are we gonna introduce an alternate versions for all of them?
What do we actually gain?

Thanks.

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tejun
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