Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933667Ab3ECQy5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 May 2013 12:54:57 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:43417 "EHLO mail-qc0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759592Ab3ECQyz (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 May 2013 12:54:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 09:54:48 -0700 From: Tejun Heo To: Alan Stern Cc: Colin Cross , Linux PM list , lkml , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Oleg Nesterov , Len Brown , Pavel Machek , Jeff Layton , Mandeep Baines Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] freezer: add new freezable helpers using freezer_do_not_count() Message-ID: <20130503165448.GA22709@mtj.dyndns.org> References: <20130503040934.GA16968@mtj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 640 Lines: 18 On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 10:18:17AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > Don't forget about freezable kernel threads. They never cross the > kernel/user boundary. Doesn't really matter for this purpose. They first of all can't be moved into !root cgroups and thus can't be cgroup-frozen and even if they could they can't be killed or ptraced, so they just don't play the same game. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/