Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/7] Freezer: Fix vfork problem

["Aneesh Kumar" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>]

On 2/25/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Currently try_to_freeze_tasks() has to wait until all of the vforked processes
> > exit and for this reason every user can make it fail.  To fix this problem
> > we can introduce the additional process flag PF_FREEZER_SKIP to be used by tasks
> > that do not want to be counted as freezable by the freezer and want to have
> > TIF_FREEZE set nevertheless.  Then, this flag can be set by tasks using
> > sys_vfork() before they call wait_for_completion() and cleared after they have
> > woken up and called try_to_freeze().  In case such a task freezes with
> > PF_FREEZER_SKIP set, refrigerator() clears this flag for the current task before
> > calling frozen_process(current) to avoid having both PF_FREEZER_SKIP and
> > PF_FROZEN set at the same time.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
>
> > @@ -1393,7 +1394,9 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
> >               tracehook_report_clone_complete(clone_flags, nr, p);
> >
> >               if (clone_flags & CLONE_VFORK) {
> > +                     freezer_do_not_count();
> >                       wait_for_completion(&vfork);
> > +                     freezer_count();
> >                       tracehook_report_vfork_done(p, nr);
> >               }
> >       } else {
>
> All the infrastructure for this...Would it be easier to introduce
>
> void fastcall __sched wait_for_completion_freezeable(struct completion *x)
> {
>         might_sleep();
>
>         spin_lock_irq(&x->wait.lock);
>         if (!x->done) {
>                 DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
>
>                 wait.flags |= WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE;
>                 __add_wait_queue_tail(&x->wait, &wait);
>                 do {
>                         __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
>                         spin_unlock_irq(&x->wait.lock);
>                         schedule();
> try_to_freeze(); /* HERE */
>                         spin_lock_irq(&x->wait.lock);
>                 } while (!x->done);
>                 __remove_wait_queue(&x->wait, &wait);
>         }
>         x->done--;
>         spin_unlock_irq(&x->wait.lock);
> }
>
>

I don't see a call  to freezer_do_not_count here. Rafel was talking
about a similar change but that would involve special cases in
refrigerator such as  wakeup parent if the process which is going to
be frozen have vfork_done set.

if (->vfork_done) {
wakeup_parent()
}

how about

void fastcall __sched wait_for_completion_freezeable(struct completion *x)
{
     freezer_do_not_count();
     wait_for_completion(x);
     freezer_count();
}

-aneesh