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<title>freezer: Do not freeze tasks killed by OOM killer</title>
<updated>2015-02-02T09:04:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cong Wang</name>
<email>xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2014-10-21T07:27:12+00:00</published>
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commit 51fae6da640edf9d266c94f36bc806c63c301991 upstream.

Since f660daac474c6f (oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen
before deferring) OOM killer relies on being able to thaw a frozen task
to handle OOM situation but a3201227f803 (freezer: make freezing() test
freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE) has reorganized the
code and stopped clearing freeze flag in __thaw_task. This means that
the target task only wakes up and goes into the fridge again because the
freezing condition hasn't changed for it. This reintroduces the bug
fixed by f660daac474c6f.

Fix the issue by checking for TIF_MEMDIE thread flag in
freezing_slow_path and exclude the task from freezing completely. If a
task was already frozen it would get woken by __thaw_task from OOM killer
and get out of freezer after rechecking freezing().

Changes since v1
- put TIF_MEMDIE check into freezing_slowpath rather than in __refrigerator
  as per Oleg
- return __thaw_task into oom_scan_process_thread because
  oom_kill_process will not wake task in the fridge because it is
  sleeping uninterruptible

[mhocko@suse.cz: rewrote the changelog]
Fixes: a3201227f803 (freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE)
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
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commit 51fae6da640edf9d266c94f36bc806c63c301991 upstream.

Since f660daac474c6f (oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen
before deferring) OOM killer relies on being able to thaw a frozen task
to handle OOM situation but a3201227f803 (freezer: make freezing() test
freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE) has reorganized the
code and stopped clearing freeze flag in __thaw_task. This means that
the target task only wakes up and goes into the fridge again because the
freezing condition hasn't changed for it. This reintroduces the bug
fixed by f660daac474c6f.

Fix the issue by checking for TIF_MEMDIE thread flag in
freezing_slow_path and exclude the task from freezing completely. If a
task was already frozen it would get woken by __thaw_task from OOM killer
and get out of freezer after rechecking freezing().

Changes since v1
- put TIF_MEMDIE check into freezing_slowpath rather than in __refrigerator
  as per Oleg
- return __thaw_task into oom_scan_process_thread because
  oom_kill_process will not wake task in the fridge because it is
  sleeping uninterruptible

[mhocko@suse.cz: rewrote the changelog]
Fixes: a3201227f803 (freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE)
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PM / Freezer: Remove references to TIF_FREEZE in comments</title>
<updated>2012-03-04T22:08:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcos Paulo de Souza</name>
<email>marcos.mage@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-21T22:57:47+00:00</published>
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This patch removes all the references in the code about the TIF_FREEZE
flag removed by commit a3201227f803ad7fd43180c5195dbe5a2bf998aa

    freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE

There still are some references to TIF_FREEZE in
Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt, but it looks like that
documentation needs more thorough work to reflect how the new
freezer works, and hence merely removing the references to TIF_FREEZE
won't really help. So I have not touched that part in this patch.

Suggested-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;marcos.mage@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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This patch removes all the references in the code about the TIF_FREEZE
flag removed by commit a3201227f803ad7fd43180c5195dbe5a2bf998aa

    freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE

There still are some references to TIF_FREEZE in
Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt, but it looks like that
documentation needs more thorough work to reflect how the new
freezer works, and hence merely removing the references to TIF_FREEZE
won't really help. So I have not touched that part in this patch.

Suggested-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;marcos.mage@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<entry>
<title>freezer: kill unused set_freezable_with_signal()</title>
<updated>2011-11-23T17:28:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-23T17:28:17+00:00</published>
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There's no in-kernel user of set_freezable_with_signal() left.  Mixing
TIF_SIGPENDING with kernel threads can lead to nasty corner cases as
kernel threads never travel signal delivery path on their own.

e.g. the current implementation is buggy in the cancelation path of
__thaw_task().  It calls recalc_sigpending_and_wake() in an attempt to
clear TIF_SIGPENDING but the function never clears it regardless of
sigpending state.  This means that signallable freezable kthreads may
continue executing with !freezing() &amp;&amp; stuck TIF_SIGPENDING, which can
be troublesome.

This patch removes set_freezable_with_signal() along with
PF_FREEZER_NOSIG and recalc_sigpending*() calls in freezer.  User
tasks get TIF_SIGPENDING, kernel tasks get woken up and the spurious
sigpending is dealt with in the usual signal delivery path.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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There's no in-kernel user of set_freezable_with_signal() left.  Mixing
TIF_SIGPENDING with kernel threads can lead to nasty corner cases as
kernel threads never travel signal delivery path on their own.

e.g. the current implementation is buggy in the cancelation path of
__thaw_task().  It calls recalc_sigpending_and_wake() in an attempt to
clear TIF_SIGPENDING but the function never clears it regardless of
sigpending state.  This means that signallable freezable kthreads may
continue executing with !freezing() &amp;&amp; stuck TIF_SIGPENDING, which can
be troublesome.

This patch removes set_freezable_with_signal() along with
PF_FREEZER_NOSIG and recalc_sigpending*() calls in freezer.  User
tasks get TIF_SIGPENDING, kernel tasks get woken up and the spurious
sigpending is dealt with in the usual signal delivery path.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>freezer: remove unused @sig_only from freeze_task()</title>
<updated>2011-11-21T20:32:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-21T20:32:26+00:00</published>
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After "freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect
instead of TIF_FREEZE", freezing() returns authoritative answer on
whether the current task should freeze or not and freeze_task()
doesn't need or use @sig_only.  Remove it.

While at it, rewrite function comment for freeze_task() and rename
@sig_only to @user_only in try_to_freeze_tasks().

This patch doesn't cause any functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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After "freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect
instead of TIF_FREEZE", freezing() returns authoritative answer on
whether the current task should freeze or not and freeze_task()
doesn't need or use @sig_only.  Remove it.

While at it, rewrite function comment for freeze_task() and rename
@sig_only to @user_only in try_to_freeze_tasks().

This patch doesn't cause any functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>freezer: use lock_task_sighand() in fake_signal_wake_up()</title>
<updated>2011-11-21T20:32:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-21T20:32:26+00:00</published>
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cgroup_freezer calls freeze_task() without holding tasklist_lock and,
if the task is exiting, its -&gt;sighand may be gone by the time
fake_signal_wake_up() is called.  Use lock_task_sighand() instead of
accessing -&gt;sighand directly.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Paul Menage &lt;paul@paulmenage.org&gt;
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cgroup_freezer calls freeze_task() without holding tasklist_lock and,
if the task is exiting, its -&gt;sighand may be gone by the time
fake_signal_wake_up() is called.  Use lock_task_sighand() instead of
accessing -&gt;sighand directly.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Paul Menage &lt;paul@paulmenage.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>freezer: restructure __refrigerator()</title>
<updated>2011-11-21T20:32:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-21T20:32:26+00:00</published>
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If another freeze happens before all tasks leave FROZEN state after
being thawed, the freezer can see the existing FROZEN and consider the
tasks to be frozen but they can clear FROZEN without checking the new
freezing().

Oleg suggested restructuring __refrigerator() such that there's single
condition check section inside freezer_lock and sigpending is cleared
afterwards, which fixes the problem and simplifies the code.
Restructure accordingly.

-v2: Frozen loop exited without releasing freezer_lock.  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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If another freeze happens before all tasks leave FROZEN state after
being thawed, the freezer can see the existing FROZEN and consider the
tasks to be frozen but they can clear FROZEN without checking the new
freezing().

Oleg suggested restructuring __refrigerator() such that there's single
condition check section inside freezer_lock and sigpending is cleared
afterwards, which fixes the problem and simplifies the code.
Restructure accordingly.

-v2: Frozen loop exited without releasing freezer_lock.  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<entry>
<title>freezer: fix set_freezable[_with_signal]() race</title>
<updated>2011-11-21T20:32:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-21T20:32:25+00:00</published>
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A kthread doing set_freezable*() may race with on-going PM freeze and
the freezer might think all tasks are frozen while the new freezable
kthread is merrily proceeding to execute code paths which aren't
supposed to be executing during PM freeze.

Reimplement set_freezable[_with_signal]() using __set_freezable() such
that freezable PF flags are modified under freezer_lock and
try_to_freeze() is called afterwards.  This eliminates race condition
against freezing.

Note: Separated out from larger patch to resolve fix order dependency
      Oleg pointed out.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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A kthread doing set_freezable*() may race with on-going PM freeze and
the freezer might think all tasks are frozen while the new freezable
kthread is merrily proceeding to execute code paths which aren't
supposed to be executing during PM freeze.

Reimplement set_freezable[_with_signal]() using __set_freezable() such
that freezable PF flags are modified under freezer_lock and
try_to_freeze() is called afterwards.  This eliminates race condition
against freezing.

Note: Separated out from larger patch to resolve fix order dependency
      Oleg pointed out.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>freezer: remove should_send_signal() and update frozen()</title>
<updated>2011-11-21T20:32:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-21T20:32:25+00:00</published>
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should_send_signal() is only used in freezer.c.  Exporting them only
increases chance of abuse.  Open code the two users and remove it.

Update frozen() to return bool.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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should_send_signal() is only used in freezer.c.  Exporting them only
increases chance of abuse.  Open code the two users and remove it.

Update frozen() to return bool.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE</title>
<updated>2011-11-21T20:32:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-21T20:32:25+00:00</published>
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Using TIF_FREEZE for freezing worked when there was only single
freezing condition (the PM one); however, now there is also the
cgroup_freezer and single bit flag is getting clumsy.
thaw_processes() is already testing whether cgroup freezing in in
effect to avoid thawing tasks which were frozen by both PM and cgroup
freezers.

This is racy (nothing prevents race against cgroup freezing) and
fragile.  A much simpler way is to test actual freeze conditions from
freezing() - ie. directly test whether PM or cgroup freezing is in
effect.

This patch adds variables to indicate whether and what type of
freezing conditions are in effect and reimplements freezing() such
that it directly tests whether any of the two freezing conditions is
active and the task should freeze.  On fast path, freezing() is still
very cheap - it only tests system_freezing_cnt.

This makes the clumsy dancing aroung TIF_FREEZE unnecessary and
freeze/thaw operations more usual - updating state variables for the
new state and nudging target tasks so that they notice the new state
and comply.  As long as the nudging happens after state update, it's
race-free.

* This allows use of freezing() in freeze_task().  Replace the open
  coded tests with freezing().

* p != current test is added to warning printing conditions in
  try_to_freeze_tasks() failure path.  This is necessary as freezing()
  is now true for the task which initiated freezing too.

-v2: Oleg pointed out that re-freezing FROZEN cgroup could increment
     system_freezing_cnt.  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Menage &lt;paul@paulmenage.org&gt;  (for the cgroup portions)
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Using TIF_FREEZE for freezing worked when there was only single
freezing condition (the PM one); however, now there is also the
cgroup_freezer and single bit flag is getting clumsy.
thaw_processes() is already testing whether cgroup freezing in in
effect to avoid thawing tasks which were frozen by both PM and cgroup
freezers.

This is racy (nothing prevents race against cgroup freezing) and
fragile.  A much simpler way is to test actual freeze conditions from
freezing() - ie. directly test whether PM or cgroup freezing is in
effect.

This patch adds variables to indicate whether and what type of
freezing conditions are in effect and reimplements freezing() such
that it directly tests whether any of the two freezing conditions is
active and the task should freeze.  On fast path, freezing() is still
very cheap - it only tests system_freezing_cnt.

This makes the clumsy dancing aroung TIF_FREEZE unnecessary and
freeze/thaw operations more usual - updating state variables for the
new state and nudging target tasks so that they notice the new state
and comply.  As long as the nudging happens after state update, it's
race-free.

* This allows use of freezing() in freeze_task().  Replace the open
  coded tests with freezing().

* p != current test is added to warning printing conditions in
  try_to_freeze_tasks() failure path.  This is necessary as freezing()
  is now true for the task which initiated freezing too.

-v2: Oleg pointed out that re-freezing FROZEN cgroup could increment
     system_freezing_cnt.  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Menage &lt;paul@paulmenage.org&gt;  (for the cgroup portions)
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<entry>
<title>freezer: clean up freeze_processes() failure path</title>
<updated>2011-11-21T20:32:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-21T20:32:24+00:00</published>
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freeze_processes() failure path is rather messy.  Freezing is canceled
for workqueues and tasks which aren't frozen yet but frozen tasks are
left alone and should be thawed by the caller and of course some
callers (xen and kexec) didn't do it.

This patch updates __thaw_task() to handle cancelation correctly and
makes freeze_processes() and freeze_kernel_threads() call
thaw_processes() on failure instead so that the system is fully thawed
on failure.  Unnecessary [suspend_]thaw_processes() calls are removed
from kernel/power/hibernate.c, suspend.c and user.c.

While at it, restructure error checking if clause in suspend_prepare()
to be less weird.

-v2: Srivatsa spotted missing removal of suspend_thaw_processes() in
     suspend_prepare() and error in commit message.  Updated.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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freeze_processes() failure path is rather messy.  Freezing is canceled
for workqueues and tasks which aren't frozen yet but frozen tasks are
left alone and should be thawed by the caller and of course some
callers (xen and kexec) didn't do it.

This patch updates __thaw_task() to handle cancelation correctly and
makes freeze_processes() and freeze_kernel_threads() call
thaw_processes() on failure instead so that the system is fully thawed
on failure.  Unnecessary [suspend_]thaw_processes() calls are removed
from kernel/power/hibernate.c, suspend.c and user.c.

While at it, restructure error checking if clause in suspend_prepare()
to be less weird.

-v2: Srivatsa spotted missing removal of suspend_thaw_processes() in
     suspend_prepare() and error in commit message.  Updated.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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