Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: freeze user space processes first

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> This patch allows swsusp to freeze processes successfully under heavy load
> by freezing userspace processes before kernel threads.
> 
> ...
>
>  /* 0 = success, else # of processes that we failed to stop */
>  int freeze_processes(void)
>  {
> -	int todo;
> +	int todo, nr_user, user_frozen;
>  	unsigned long start_time;
>  	struct task_struct *g, *p;
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
>  	printk( "Stopping tasks: " );
>  	start_time = jiffies;
> +	user_frozen = 0;
>  	do {
> -		todo = 0;
> +		nr_user = todo = 0;
>  		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
>  		do_each_thread(g, p) {
>  			if (!freezeable(p))
>  				continue;
>  			if (frozen(p))
>  				continue;
> -
> -			freeze(p);
> -			spin_lock_irqsave(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
> -			signal_wake_up(p, 0);
> -			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
> -			todo++;
> +			if (p->mm && !(p->flags & PF_BORROWED_MM)) {
> +				/* The task is a user-space one.
> +				 * Freeze it unless there's a vfork completion
> +				 * pending
> +				 */
> +				if (!p->vfork_done)
> +					freeze_process(p);
> +				nr_user++;
> +			} else {
> +				/* Freeze only if the user space is frozen */
> +				if (user_frozen)
> +					freeze_process(p);
> +				todo++;
> +			}
>  		} while_each_thread(g, p);
>  		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> +		todo += nr_user;
> +		if (!user_frozen && !nr_user) {
> +			sys_sync();
> +			start_time = jiffies;
> +		}
> +		user_frozen = !nr_user;
>  		yield();			/* Yield is okay here */
> -		if (todo && time_after(jiffies, start_time + TIMEOUT)) {
> -			printk( "\n" );
> -			printk(KERN_ERR " stopping tasks timed out (%d tasks remaining)\n", todo );
> +		if (todo && time_after(jiffies, start_time + TIMEOUT))
>  			break;

The logic in that loop makes my brain burst.

What happens if a process does vfork();sleep(100000000)?

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