kernel_optimize_test/drivers/md
Rafael J. Wysocki 8314418629 Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
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raid6test
.gitignore
bitmap.c md: don't write more than is required of the last page of a bitmap 2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
dm-bio-list.h dm: bio_list prefetch removal 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-bio-record.h
dm-crypt.c dm: disable barriers 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-delay.c dm delay: cleanup 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-emc.c
dm-exception-store.c dm snapshot: permit invalid activation 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-hw-handler.c
dm-hw-handler.h dm mpath: log device name 2007-05-09 12:30:46 -07:00
dm-io.c dm io: fix panic on large request 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-io.h dm io: remove old interface 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
dm-ioctl.c
dm-linear.c
dm-log.c dm log: fix resume failed log device 2007-05-09 12:30:48 -07:00
dm-log.h
dm-mpath-rdac.c dm mpath: rdac 2007-07-12 15:01:23 -07:00
dm-mpath.c dm: disable barriers 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-mpath.h
dm-path-selector.c
dm-path-selector.h
dm-raid1.c dm raid1: handle log failure 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-round-robin.c dm: remove duplicate module name from error msgs 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-snap.c dm: disable barriers 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-snap.h dm: use kmem_cache macro 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-stripe.c
dm-table.c dm: allow offline devices 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
dm-target.c
dm-zero.c
dm.c dm: disable barriers 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm.h dm: add ratelimit logging macros 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
faulty.c
Kconfig Merge branch 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop 2007-07-13 10:52:27 -07:00
kcopyd.c dm: use kmem_cache macro 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
kcopyd.h
linear.c md: fix bug with linear hot-add and elsewhere 2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop 2007-07-13 10:52:27 -07:00
md.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
mktables.c
multipath.c
raid1.c md: fix bug in error handling during raid1 repair 2007-06-16 13:16:15 -07:00
raid5.c md: remove raid5 compute_block and compute_parity5 2007-07-13 08:06:18 -07:00
raid6.h
raid6algos.c
raid6altivec.uc
raid6int.uc
raid6mmx.c
raid6recov.c
raid6sse1.c
raid6sse2.c
raid6x86.h
raid10.c md: fix two raid10 bugs 2007-06-16 13:16:15 -07:00
raid0.c md: avoid overflow in raid0 calculation with large components 2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
unroll.pl