On 05/11, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sat, 12 May 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > things change, ->mm is not stable if the kernel thread does use_mm/unuse_mm.
>
> ->mm is not stable *regardless*!
>
> Trivial examples:
> - kernel thread does execve()
> - user thread does exit().
Yes sure. Quoting myself,
>
> true->false means daemonize() or do_exit(), seems harmless.
>
> false->true means exec from kernel space. That is why FREEZER_KERNEL_THREADS
> in fact means all tasks, not only kernel threads.
>
> The use "use_mm()" and "unuse_mm()" things are total red herrings.
>
> If the freezer depends on the difference between user and kernel threads,
> then THAT PATCH IS BUGGY. It's that simple.
This is another story, I can't comment because I am not educated enough.
However, in my opininon THAT PATCH has nothing to do with this problem.
It just improves the code that we already have.
> > However, the return value == 0 does not change in that particular case,
> > exactly because is_user_space() takes task_lock().
>
> As does exit_mm() etc.
Note the "in that particular case".
> See? The locking was pointless. Exactly because you release the lock
> before the user can actually do anything about the return value!
Yes. See the "Quoting myself" above.
> Anyway, I think the whole freezer thing is broken. There's no reason to
> freeze kernel threads.
It is not perfect. Rafael tries to improve it.
Do we need freezer? Should we freeze kernel threads? I can't judge. I tried
to read a long thread about suspend, and failed to understand it.
I personally think we can simplify things if CPU-hotplug use freezer, at least.
Oleg.
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