Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755294AbbKSQPr (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:15:47 -0500 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:43748 "EHLO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754684AbbKSQPq (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:15:46 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: 8jGtEud1BNL19cAck5uZQXNnd5AcvvCjImxRNMNcrRq0 1447949745 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 08:15:43 -0800 From: GregKH To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] w1: w1_process() is not freezable kthread Message-ID: <20151119161543.GA10832@kroah.com> References: <2428911445956236@web17h.yandex.ru> <215991446730430@web4m.yandex.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1305 Lines: 34 On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 04:49:41PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > I fail to see why this kthread should be freezable at all. There is no way > > > for w1 device to generate new I/O requests that should be written out to > > > filesystem, is it? > > > > w1 doesn't generate such requests, but it was more to make this thread > > consistent with majority of other threads in the kernel. > > Most of which actually don't need freezer at all, and only contribute to > the overall confusion regarding what kthread freezer is actually for. > > It's my long-term goal to fix this situation (and this patch is part of > some preparatory steps :) ). > > > Ok, I'm not against it, Greg please pull this patch into your tree. > > > > Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov > > Greg, do you plan to take this please? I don't seem to see it in > linux-next as of today. Give me a chance to catch up on things, the merge window was just over and I just returned from another conference... thanks, greg k-h -- 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/