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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2011-11-21 12:32:22 -0800
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2011-11-21 12:32:22 -0800
commit3a7cbd50f74907580eb47a8d08e1f29741b81abf (patch)
tree515b7d9b9fa85c20ecf6779d563371b666a8b991
parent50fb4f7fc907efff65eadb0b74387a9ffed6e849 (diff)
freezer: don't unnecessarily set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly
Some drivers set PF_NOFREEZE in their kthread functions which is completely unnecessary and racy - some part of freezer code doesn't consider cases where PF_NOFREEZE is set asynchronous to freezer operations. In general, there's no reason to allow setting PF_NOFREEZE explicitly. Remove them and change the documentation to note that setting PF_NOFREEZE directly isn't allowed. -v2: Dropped change to twl4030-irq.c as it no longer uses PF_NOFREEZE. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: "Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@profusion.mobi> Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Cc: wwang <wei_wang@realsil.com.cn>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt2
-rw-r--r--drivers/bluetooth/btmrvl_main.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/mfd/twl6030-irq.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/rts_pstor/rtsx.c2
4 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
index 316c2ba187f4..587e0828053f 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ III. Which kernel threads are freezable?
Kernel threads are not freezable by default. However, a kernel thread may clear
PF_NOFREEZE for itself by calling set_freezable() (the resetting of PF_NOFREEZE
-directly is strongly discouraged). From this point it is regarded as freezable
+directly is not allowed). From this point it is regarded as freezable
and must call try_to_freeze() in a suitable place.
IV. Why do we do that?
diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/btmrvl_main.c b/drivers/bluetooth/btmrvl_main.c
index a88a78c86162..6c3defa50845 100644
--- a/drivers/bluetooth/btmrvl_main.c
+++ b/drivers/bluetooth/btmrvl_main.c
@@ -475,8 +475,6 @@ static int btmrvl_service_main_thread(void *data)
init_waitqueue_entry(&wait, current);
- current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
-
for (;;) {
add_wait_queue(&thread->wait_q, &wait);
diff --git a/drivers/mfd/twl6030-irq.c b/drivers/mfd/twl6030-irq.c
index 3eee45ffb096..c6b456ad7342 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/twl6030-irq.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/twl6030-irq.c
@@ -138,8 +138,6 @@ static int twl6030_irq_thread(void *data)
static const unsigned max_i2c_errors = 100;
int ret;
- current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
-
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
int i;
union {
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/rtsx.c b/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/rtsx.c
index 480b0ed2e4de..8a7803cf88d2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/rtsx.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/rtsx.c
@@ -466,8 +466,6 @@ static int rtsx_control_thread(void *__dev)
struct rtsx_chip *chip = dev->chip;
struct Scsi_Host *host = rtsx_to_host(dev);
- current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
-
for (;;) {
if (wait_for_completion_interruptible(&dev->cmnd_ready))
break;