Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDING

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To: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...>

Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...>, Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...>, pm list <linux-pm@...>

Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDING

Date: Friday, October 19, 2007 - 3:55 am

On Fri 2007-10-19 00:22:35, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
quoted text> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> 
> Do not allow processes to clear their TIF_SIGPENDING if TIF_FREEZE is set,
> to prevent them from racing with the freezer (like mysqld does, for example).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

ACK. We want this in 2.6.24.
									Pavel

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[RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processes to..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Thu Oct 18, 6:22 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processe..., Pavel Machek, (Fri Oct 19, 3:55 am)

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processe..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Fri Oct 19, 5:34 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processe..., Nigel Cunningham, (Thu Oct 18, 6:09 pm)


linux-kernel:
Greg KH	[GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24
Tejun Heo	[PATCH 2/5] sysfs: simplify sysfs_rename_dir()
Andi Kleen	[PATCH x86] [0/16] Various i386/x86-64 changes
Dave Hansen	Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages
git:

openbsd-misc:

linux-netdev:
Gerrit Renker	[PATCH 15/37] dccp: Set per-connection CCIDs via socket options
David Miller	[GIT]: Networking
Jarek Poplawski	[PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock().
Thomas Gleixner	Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDING

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