Commit 3df494a3 authored Dec 13, 2006 by Rafael J. Wysocki Committed by Linus Torvalds Dec 13, 2006

[PATCH] PM: Fix freezing of stopped tasks



Currently, if a task is stopped (ie.  it's in the TASK_STOPPED state), it
is considered by the freezer as unfreezeable.  However, there may be a race
between the freezer and the delivery of the continuation signal to the task
resulting in the task running after we have finished freezing the other
tasks.  This, in turn, may lead to undesirable effects up to and including
data corruption.

To prevent this from happening we first need to make the freezer consider
stopped tasks as freezeable.  For this purpose we need to make freezeable()
stop returning 0 for these tasks and we need to force them to enter the
refrigerator.  However, if there's no continuation signal in the meantime,
the stopped tasks should remain stopped after all processes have been
thawed, so we need to send an additional SIGSTOP to each of them before
waking it up.

Also, a stopped task that has just been woken up should first check if
there's a freezing request for it and go to the refrigerator if that's the
case.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 6a2d7a95

kernel/power/process.c

+6 −6

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ static inline int freezeable(struct task_struct * p)
		if ((p == current) \|\|
		(p->flags & PF_NOFREEZE) \|\|
		(p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) \|\|
		(p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD) \|\|
		(p->state == TASK_STOPPED))
		(p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD))
		return 0;
		return 1;
		}
		@@ -61,9 +60,12 @@ static inline void freeze_process(struct task_struct *p)
		unsigned long flags;

		if (!freezing(p)) {
		if (p->state == TASK_STOPPED)
		force_sig_specific(SIGSTOP, p);

		freeze(p);
		spin_lock_irqsave(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
		signal_wake_up(p, 0);
		signal_wake_up(p, p->state == TASK_STOPPED);
		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->sighand->siglock, flags);
		}
		}
		@@ -103,9 +105,7 @@ static unsigned int try_to_freeze_tasks(int freeze_user_space)
		if (frozen(p))
		continue;

		if (p->state == TASK_TRACED &&
		(frozen(p->parent) \|\|
		p->parent->state == TASK_STOPPED)) {
		if (p->state == TASK_TRACED && frozen(p->parent)) {
		cancel_freezing(p);
		continue;
		}

kernel/signal.c

+3 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1705,7 +1705,9 @@ finish_stop(int stop_count)
		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
		}

		do {
		schedule();
		} while (try_to_freeze());
		/*
		* Now we don't run again until continued.
		*/

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