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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/freezer-subsystem.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cgroup/legacy_freezer.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/freezer-subsystem.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/freezer-subsystem.rst index 582d3427de3f..a964aff373b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/freezer-subsystem.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/freezer-subsystem.rst @@ -125,3 +125,7 @@ to unfreeze all tasks in the container:: This is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space task in a simple scenario. + +This freezer implementation is affected by shortcomings (see commit +76f969e8948d8 ("cgroup: cgroup v2 freezer")) and cgroup v2 freezer is +recommended. diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/legacy_freezer.c b/kernel/cgroup/legacy_freezer.c index 074653f964c1..039d1eb2f215 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/legacy_freezer.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/legacy_freezer.c @@ -430,9 +430,11 @@ static ssize_t freezer_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, if (strcmp(buf, freezer_state_strs(0)) == 0) freeze = false; - else if (strcmp(buf, freezer_state_strs(CGROUP_FROZEN)) == 0) + else if (strcmp(buf, freezer_state_strs(CGROUP_FROZEN)) == 0) { + pr_info_once("Freezing with imperfect legacy cgroup freezer. " + "See cgroup.freeze of cgroup v2\n"); freeze = true; - else + } else return -EINVAL; freezer_change_state(css_freezer(of_css(of)), freeze); |