kernel_optimize_test/mm
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
..
allocpercpu.c Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
backing-dev.c remove mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible() 2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
bootmem.c
bounce.c
fadvise.c
filemap_xip.c xip sendfile removal 2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
filemap.c Fix read/truncate race 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
filemap.h
fremap.c
highmem.c Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
hugetlb.c MM: Make needlessly global hugetlb_no_page() static. 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
internal.h
Kconfig Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 2007-07-16 10:32:02 -07:00
madvise.c speed up madvise_need_mmap_write() usage 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Makefile
memory_hotplug.c memory hotplug: fix unnecessary calling of init_currenty_empty_zone() 2007-06-01 08:18:29 -07:00
memory.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
mempolicy.c Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
mempool.c Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
migrate.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
mincore.c
mlock.c do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
mmap.c split mmap 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap 2007-07-11 22:52:29 -04:00
msync.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
nommu.c nommu: stub expand_stack() for nommu case 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
oom_kill.c
page_alloc.c Lumpy Reclaim V4 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
page_io.c
page-writeback.c fs: introduce some page/buffer invariants 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
pdflush.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c mm: kill validate_anon_vma to avoid mapcount BUG 2007-06-28 11:34:53 -07:00
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
slab.c Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocations 2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
slob.c Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocations 2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
slub.c SLUB: Fix CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG use for CONFIG_NUMA 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
sparse.c Move three functions that are only needed for CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 2007-06-08 17:23:33 -07:00
swap_state.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
swap.c Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
swapfile.c vmscan: fix comments related to shrink_list() 2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
thrash.c Bug in mm/thrash.c function grab_swap_token() 2007-05-11 08:29:32 -07:00
tiny-shmem.c
truncate.c fs: introduce some page/buffer invariants 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
util.c Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocations 2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
vmalloc.c Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
vmscan.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
vmstat.c Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00