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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/macintosh, branch linux-2.6.23.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>Disable G5 NAP mode during SMU commands on U3</title>
<updated>2008-02-26T00:14:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-07T03:29:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9afecc5026beec3e3658051a8d02301a614180fb'/>
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patch 592a607bbc053bc6f614a0e619326009f4b3829e in mainline.

It appears that with the U3 northbridge, if the processor is in NAP
mode the whole time while waiting for an SMU command to complete,
then the SMU will fail.  It could be related to the weird backward
mechanism the SMU uses to get to system memory via i2c to the
northbridge that doesn't operate properly when the said bridge is
in napping along with the CPU.  That is on U3 at least, U4 doesn't
seem to be affected.

This didn't show before NO_HZ as the timer wakeup was enough to make
it work it seems, but that is no longer the case.

This fixes it by disabling NAP mode on those machines while
an SMU command is in flight.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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patch 592a607bbc053bc6f614a0e619326009f4b3829e in mainline.

It appears that with the U3 northbridge, if the processor is in NAP
mode the whole time while waiting for an SMU command to complete,
then the SMU will fail.  It could be related to the weird backward
mechanism the SMU uses to get to system memory via i2c to the
northbridge that doesn't operate properly when the said bridge is
in napping along with the CPU.  That is on U3 at least, U4 doesn't
seem to be affected.

This didn't show before NO_HZ as the timer wakeup was enough to make
it work it seems, but that is no longer the case.

This fixes it by disabling NAP mode on those machines while
an SMU command is in flight.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Fix undefined reference to device_power_up/resume</title>
<updated>2007-08-25T06:58:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Olaf Hering</name>
<email>olaf@aepfle.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-24T19:42:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e120e8d03a263cf75f2abc0f8b3a03a65cfd3b88'/>
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Current Linus tree fails to link on pmac32:

drivers/built-in.o: In function `pmac_wakeup_devices':
via-pmu.c:(.text+0x5bab4): undefined reference to `device_power_up'
via-pmu.c:(.text+0x5bb08): undefined reference to `device_resume'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `pmac_suspend_devices':
via-pmu.c:(.text+0x5c260): undefined reference to `device_power_down'
via-pmu.c:(.text+0x5c27c): undefined reference to `device_resume'
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

changing CONFIG_PM &gt; CONFIG_PM_SLEEP leads to:

drivers/built-in.o: In function `pmu_led_set':
via-pmu-led.c:(.text+0x5cdca): undefined reference to `pmu_sys_suspended'
via-pmu-led.c:(.text+0x5cdce): undefined reference to `pmu_sys_suspended'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `pmu_req_done':
via-pmu-led.c:(.text+0x5ce3e): undefined reference to `pmu_sys_suspended'
via-pmu-led.c:(.text+0x5ce42): undefined reference to `pmu_sys_suspended'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `adb_init':
(.init.text+0x4c5c): undefined reference to `pmu_register_sleep_notifier'
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

So change even more places from PM to PM_SLEEP to allow linking.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering &lt;olaf@aepfle.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Current Linus tree fails to link on pmac32:

drivers/built-in.o: In function `pmac_wakeup_devices':
via-pmu.c:(.text+0x5bab4): undefined reference to `device_power_up'
via-pmu.c:(.text+0x5bb08): undefined reference to `device_resume'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `pmac_suspend_devices':
via-pmu.c:(.text+0x5c260): undefined reference to `device_power_down'
via-pmu.c:(.text+0x5c27c): undefined reference to `device_resume'
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

changing CONFIG_PM &gt; CONFIG_PM_SLEEP leads to:

drivers/built-in.o: In function `pmu_led_set':
via-pmu-led.c:(.text+0x5cdca): undefined reference to `pmu_sys_suspended'
via-pmu-led.c:(.text+0x5cdce): undefined reference to `pmu_sys_suspended'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `pmu_req_done':
via-pmu-led.c:(.text+0x5ce3e): undefined reference to `pmu_sys_suspended'
via-pmu-led.c:(.text+0x5ce42): undefined reference to `pmu_sys_suspended'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `adb_init':
(.init.text+0x4c5c): undefined reference to `pmu_register_sleep_notifier'
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

So change even more places from PM to PM_SLEEP to allow linking.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering &lt;olaf@aepfle.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>m68k/mac: Make mac_hid_mouse_emulate_buttons() declaration visible</title>
<updated>2007-08-23T02:52:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-22T21:01:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2301060e2b19aa4830060524ef66abdf32b26a26'/>
<id>2301060e2b19aa4830060524ef66abdf32b26a26</id>
<content type='text'>
m68k/mac: Make mac_hid_mouse_emulate_buttons() declaration visible

drivers/char/keyboard.c: In function 'kbd_keycode':
drivers/char/keyboard.c:1142: error: implicit declaration of function 'mac_hid_mouse_emulate_buttons'

The forward declaration of mac_hid_mouse_emulate_buttons() is not visible on
m68k because it's hidden in the middle of a big #ifdef block.

Move it to &lt;linux/kbd_kern.h&gt;, correct the type of the second parameter, and
include &lt;linux/kbd_kern.h&gt; where needed.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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m68k/mac: Make mac_hid_mouse_emulate_buttons() declaration visible

drivers/char/keyboard.c: In function 'kbd_keycode':
drivers/char/keyboard.c:1142: error: implicit declaration of function 'mac_hid_mouse_emulate_buttons'

The forward declaration of mac_hid_mouse_emulate_buttons() is not visible on
m68k because it's hidden in the middle of a big #ifdef block.

Move it to &lt;linux/kbd_kern.h&gt;, correct the type of the second parameter, and
include &lt;linux/kbd_kern.h&gt; where needed.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>remove dead code in via-pmu68k</title>
<updated>2007-08-23T02:52:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-22T21:01:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0d5e74fc7f44b1cdcd793496877c67a2a7a32a1e'/>
<id>0d5e74fc7f44b1cdcd793496877c67a2a7a32a1e</id>
<content type='text'>
When suspend is ever implemented for pmu68k it really should follow the
generic pm_ops concept and not mirror the platform-specific /dev/pmu
device with ioctls on it. Hence, this patch removes the unused code there;
should the implementers need it they can look at via-pmu.c and/or the
history of the file.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
When suspend is ever implemented for pmu68k it really should follow the
generic pm_ops concept and not mirror the platform-specific /dev/pmu
device with ioctls on it. Hence, this patch removes the unused code there;
should the implementers need it they can look at via-pmu.c and/or the
history of the file.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Add some help texts to recently-introduced kconfig items</title>
<updated>2007-08-18T16:52:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Engelhardt</name>
<email>jengelh@computergmbh.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-18T10:56:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=06bfb7eb1535822a3338ffea9918e22215abed90'/>
<id>06bfb7eb1535822a3338ffea9918e22215abed90</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt; (edited MACINTOSH_DRIVERS per Geert Uytterhoeven's remark)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt; (edited MACINTOSH_DRIVERS per Geert Uytterhoeven's remark)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Clean up duplicate includes in drivers/macintosh/</title>
<updated>2007-07-22T11:31:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jesper Juhl</name>
<email>jesper.juhl@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-21T15:02:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7bd02a20d5fcb69e1623c3bf2b68959fe7a77fa4'/>
<id>7bd02a20d5fcb69e1623c3bf2b68959fe7a77fa4</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl &lt;jesper.juhl@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl &lt;jesper.juhl@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>some kmalloc/memset -&gt;kzalloc (tree wide)</title>
<updated>2007-07-19T17:04:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yoann Padioleau</name>
<email>padator@wanadoo.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-19T08:49:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=dd00cc486ab1c17049a535413d1751ef3482141c'/>
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Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).

Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:

@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@

 x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
  (E1,E2)
  ...  when != \(x-&gt;fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);

@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@

- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau &lt;padator@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Bryan Wu &lt;bryan.wu@analog.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Acked-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman &lt;drzeus-list@drzeus.cx&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" &lt;adaplas@pol.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).

Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:

@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@

 x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
  (E1,E2)
  ...  when != \(x-&gt;fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);

@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@

- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau &lt;padator@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Bryan Wu &lt;bryan.wu@analog.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Acked-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman &lt;drzeus-list@drzeus.cx&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" &lt;adaplas@pol.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>usermodehelper: Tidy up waiting</title>
<updated>2007-07-18T15:47:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Fitzhardinge</name>
<email>jeremy@xensource.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-18T01:37:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=86313c488a6848b7ec2ba04e74f25f79dd32a0b7'/>
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Rather than using a tri-state integer for the wait flag in
call_usermodehelper_exec, define a proper enum, and use that.  I've
preserved the integer values so that any callers I've missed should
still work OK.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;joel.becker@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri &lt;vatsa@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Rather than using a tri-state integer for the wait flag in
call_usermodehelper_exec, define a proper enum, and use that.  I've
preserved the integer values so that any callers I've missed should
still work OK.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;joel.becker@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri &lt;vatsa@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default</title>
<updated>2007-07-17T17:23:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-17T11:03:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=831441862956fffa17b9801db37e6ea1650b0f69'/>
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<content type='text'>
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham &lt;nigel@nigel.suspend2.net&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&gt;
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy &lt;ego@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham &lt;nigel@nigel.suspend2.net&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&gt;
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy &lt;ego@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>adb_probe_task: remove unneeded flush_signals() call</title>
<updated>2007-07-16T16:05:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@tv-sign.ru</email>
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<published>2007-07-16T06:41:29+00:00</published>
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adb_probe_task() is forked by "events" thread, all signals are ignored, no
need to play with signal blocking/flushing.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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adb_probe_task() is forked by "events" thread, all signals are ignored, no
need to play with signal blocking/flushing.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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