Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] Freezer: Fix vfork problem

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Feb 28 2007 - 05:55:39 EST


On Wednesday, 28 February 2007 02:23, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:53:14AM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > I think it is good. Srivatsa?
>
> Maybe additional comments on why we don't skip vfork kernel tasks may be good.

Which is because we don't want the kernel threads to be frozen in unexpected
places, so we allow them to block freeze_processes() instead or to set
PF_NOFREEZE?

> Otherwise looks ok to me. Thanks Rafael for making the changes!

You're welcome. :-)

Greetings,
Rafael
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