Re: [PATCH -mm 3/7] Freezer: Remove PF_NOFREEZE from rcutorture thread

[Srivatsa Vaddagiri]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:32:40PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> I personally think we should do the opposite, add kthread_should_stop_check_freeze()
> or something. kthread_should_stop() is like signal_pending(), we can use
> it under spin_lock (and it is probably used this way by some out-of-tree
> driver). The new helper is obviously "might_sleep()".

Yes, I agree. It helps the caller explicitly know that this function
-can- freeze.

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Regards,
vatsa
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