user/sven/linux.git/kernel/power/process.c, branch v3.2

PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory

2011-10-16T21:28:52Z

There is a problem with the current ordering of hibernate code which leads to deadlocks in some filesystems' memory shrinkers. Namely, some filesystems use freezable kernel threads that are inactive when the hibernate memory preallocation is carried out. Those same filesystems use memory shrinkers that may be triggered by the hibernate memory preallocation. If those memory shrinkers wait for the frozen kernel threads, the hibernate process deadlocks (this happens with XFS, for one example). Apparently, it is not technically viable to redesign the filesystems in question to avoid the situation described above, so the only possible solution of this issue is to defer the freezing of kernel threads until the hibernate memory preallocation is done, which is implemented by this change. Unfortunately, this requires the memory preallocation to be done before the "prepare" stage of device freeze, so after this change the only way drivers can allocate additional memory for their freeze routines in a clean way is to use PM notifiers. Reported-by: Christoph Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable'

2011-02-16T16:48:59Z

There are two spellings in use for 'freeze' + 'able' - 'freezable' and 'freezeable'. The former is the more prominent one. The latter is mostly used by workqueue and in a few other odd places. Unify the spelling to 'freezable'. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Alan Stern Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Alex Dubov Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Steven Whitehouse

PM / Wakeup: Replace pm_check_wakeup_events() with pm_wakeup_pending()

2010-12-24T14:02:42Z

To avoid confusion with the meaning and return value of pm_check_wakeup_events() replace it with pm_wakeup_pending() that will work the other way around (ie. return true when system-wide power transition should be aborted). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

Freezer: Fix a race during freezing of TASK_STOPPED tasks

2010-12-24T14:02:40Z

After calling freeze_task(), try_to_freeze_tasks() see whether the task is stopped or traced and if so, considers it to be frozen; however, nothing guarantees that either the task being frozen sees TIF_FREEZE or the freezer sees TASK_STOPPED -> TASK_RUNNING transition. The task being frozen may wake up and not see TIF_FREEZE while the freezer fails to notice the transition and believes the task is still stopped. This patch fixes the race by making freeze_task() always go through fake_signal_wake_up() for applicable tasks. The function goes through the target task's scheduler lock and thus guarantees that either the target sees TIF_FREEZE or try_to_freeze_task() sees TASK_RUNNING. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

PM: Allow wakeup events to abort freezing of tasks

2010-10-16T23:57:49Z

If there is a wakeup event during the freezing of tasks, suspend or hibernation will fail anyway. Since try_to_freeze_tasks() can take up to 20 seconds to complete or fail, aborting it as soon as a wakeup event is detected improves the worst case wakeup latency. Based on a patch from Arve Hjønnevåg. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Pavel Machek

workqueue: reimplement workqueue freeze using max_active

2010-06-29T08:07:12Z

Currently, workqueue freezing is implemented by marking the worker freezeable and calling try_to_freeze() from dispatch loop. Reimplement it using cwq->limit so that the workqueue is frozen instead of the worker. * workqueue_struct->saved_max_active is added which stores the specified max_active on initialization. * On freeze, all cwq->max_active's are quenched to zero. Freezing is complete when nr_active on all cwqs reach zero. * On thaw, all cwq->max_active's are restored to wq->saved_max_active and the worklist is repopulated. This new implementation allows having single shared pool of workers per cpu. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

Freezer: Fix buggy resume test for tasks frozen with cgroup freezer

2010-03-26T22:51:44Z

When the cgroup freezer is used to freeze tasks we do not want to thaw those tasks during resume. Currently we test the cgroup freezer state of the resuming tasks to see if the cgroup is FROZEN. If so then we don't thaw the task. However, the FREEZING state also indicates that the task should remain frozen. This also avoids a problem pointed out by Oren Ladaan: the freezer state transition from FREEZING to FROZEN is updated lazily when userspace reads or writes the freezer.state file in the cgroup filesystem. This means that resume will thaw tasks in cgroups which should be in the FROZEN state if there is no read/write of the freezer.state file to trigger this transition before suspend. NOTE: Another "simple" solution would be to always update the cgroup freezer state during resume. However it's a bad choice for several reasons: Updating the cgroup freezer state is somewhat expensive because it requires walking all the tasks in the cgroup and checking if they are each frozen. Worse, this could easily make resume run in N^2 time where N is the number of tasks in the cgroup. Finally, updating the freezer state from this code path requires trickier locking because of the way locks must be ordered. Instead of updating the freezer state we rely on the fact that lazy updates only manage the transition from FREEZING to FROZEN. We know that a cgroup with the FREEZING state may actually be FROZEN so test for that state too. This makes sense in the resume path even for partially-frozen cgroups -- those that really are FREEZING but not FROZEN. Reported-by: Oren Ladaan Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

Freezer: Only show the state of tasks refusing to freeze

2010-03-26T22:51:13Z

show_state will dump all tasks state, so if freezer failed to freeze any task, kernel will dump all tasks state and flood the dmesg log. This patch makes freezer only show state of tasks refusing to freeze. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng Acked-by: Pavel Machek Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

PM / freezer: Don't get over-anxious while waiting

2009-10-28T21:53:09Z

Freezing isn't exactly the most latency sensitive operation and there's no reason to burn cpu cycles and power waiting for it to complete. msleep(10) instead of yield(). This should improve reliability of emergency hibernation. [rjw: Modified the comment next to the msleep(10).] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

oom: move oom_killer_enable()/oom_killer_disable to where they belong

2009-09-22T14:17:38Z

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Acked-by: David Rientjes Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds