> Hi!
>
> > > This patch is on top of the "Freezer: Avoid freezing kernel threads prematurely"
> > > patch that I posted yestarday, available at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/25/199
> > > (updated version that applies cleanly on top of 2.6.22-rc3, is available at
> > >
http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/hibernation_and_suspend/2.6.22-rc3/patches/07-freezer-avoid-...).
> > > It has been tested on a couple of machines and doesn't seem to break anything.
> > >
> > > [As you can see there are quite a lot of files affected, so I didn't add all
> > > maintainers of them to the CC list. In fact, I'm not sure how to handle
> > > notifying them of the change, so please advise.]
> >
> > Does the lack of comments mean that everyone on the CC list agrees with this
> > approach? ;-)
> >
> > In the meantime, it turns out that this patch fixes the hibernation/suspend
> > problem with cryptd discussed in the thread at
> >
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/26/24 .
> >
> > The problem is that cryptd doesn't call try_to_freeze() and doesn't set
> > PF_NOFREEZE for itself, so the freezer cannot handle it properly. In principle
> > we can add either try_to_freeze() or the setting of PF_NOFREEZE to it, but if
> > the approach in the $subject patch is acceptable, we'll need to remove that
> > soon. So, what should we do?
>
> I'd add PF_NONFREEZE. Changing the defaults in freezer is obviously
> not 2.6.22 material.
