Re: [PATCH 2/2] kernel: rerun task_work while freezing in get_signal()
From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Jul 09 2024 - 15:40:26 EST
On 07/09, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>
> On 7/9/24 20:07, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >Hi Tejun,
> >
> >Thanks for looking at this, can you review this V2 patch from Pavel?
Just in case, I obviously meant our next (V2) patch
[PATCH v2 2/2] kernel: rerun task_work while freezing in get_signal()
https://lore.kernel.org/all/149ff5a762997c723880751e8a4019907a0b6457.1720534425.git.asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx/
> >Well, I don't really understand what can snapshot/restore actually mean...
>
> CRIU, I assume. I'll try it ...
Than I think we can forget about task_works and this patch. CRIU dumps
the tasks in TASK_TRACED state.
> ... but I'm inclined to think the patch makes sense regardless,
> we're replacing an infinite loop with wait-wake-execute-wait.
Agreed.
Oleg.