kernel_optimize_test/arch/i386
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
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boot Remove old i386 setup code 2007-07-12 10:55:56 -07:00
crypto
kernel Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
lib i386: Add safe variants of rdmsr_on_cpu and wrmsr_on_cpu 2007-05-08 17:22:01 +02:00
mach-default Add IRQF_IRQPOLL flag on i386 2007-05-08 11:15:22 -07:00
mach-es7000 i386: es7000 build breakage fix 2007-07-06 10:23:43 -07:00
mach-generic i386 bigsmp: section mismatch fixes 2007-05-23 20:14:15 -07:00
mach-visws PCI: i386: traps, change VENDOR to DEVICE 2007-07-11 16:02:10 -07:00
mach-voyager i386: fix voyager build 2007-05-15 08:54:01 -07:00
math-emu potential parse error in ifdef part 3 2007-06-08 17:23:33 -07:00
mm Allow DEBUG_RODATA and KPROBES to co-exist 2007-06-21 16:02:50 -07:00
oprofile x86: fix oprofile double free 2007-06-01 08:18:28 -07:00
pci PCI: Change all drivers to use pci_device->revision 2007-07-11 16:02:10 -07:00
power [PATCH] x86: Save and restore the fixed-range MTRRs of the BSP when suspending 2007-05-02 19:27:17 +02:00
defconfig i386: Update defconfig 2007-05-21 09:56:56 -07:00
Kconfig Use menuconfig objects II - oprofile 2007-07-16 09:05:40 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu x86 Kconfig: change X86_MINIMUM_CPU_MODEL to X86_MINIMUM_CPU_FAMILY 2007-07-12 10:55:54 -07:00
Kconfig.debug Allow DEBUG_RODATA and KPROBES to co-exist 2007-06-21 16:02:50 -07:00
Makefile Revert "[PATCH] x86: Drop cc-options call for all options supported in gcc 3.2+" 2007-05-17 20:18:11 -07:00
Makefile.cpu [PATCH] i386: Fix usage of -mtune when X86_GENERIC=y or CONFIG_MCORE2=y 2007-05-02 19:27:06 +02:00