Freezer: Introduce PF_FREEZER_NOSIG

The freezer currently attempts to distinguish kernel threads from
user space tasks by checking if their mm pointer is unset and it
does not send fake signals to kernel threads.  However, there are
kernel threads, mostly related to networking, that behave like
user space tasks and may want to be sent a fake signal to be frozen.

Introduce the new process flag PF_FREEZER_NOSIG that will be set
by default for all kernel threads and make the freezer only send
fake signals to the tasks having PF_FREEZER_NOSIG unset.  Provide
the set_freezable_with_signal() function to be called by the kernel
threads that want to be sent a fake signal for freezing.

This patch should not change the freezer's observable behavior.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/freezer.h b/include/linux/freezer.h
index 08934995c7ab..deddeedf3257 100644
--- a/include/linux/freezer.h
+++ b/include/linux/freezer.h
@@ -128,6 +128,15 @@ static inline void set_freezable(void)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Tell the freezer that the current task should be frozen by it and that it
+ * should send a fake signal to the task to freeze it.
+ */
+static inline void set_freezable_with_signal(void)
+{
+        current->flags &= ~(PF_NOFREEZE | PF_FREEZER_NOSIG);
+}
+
+/*
  * Freezer-friendly wrappers around wait_event_interruptible() and
  * wait_event_interruptible_timeout(), originally defined in <linux/wait.h>
  */
@@ -174,6 +183,7 @@ static inline void freezer_do_not_count(void) {}
 static inline void freezer_count(void) {}
 static inline int freezer_should_skip(struct task_struct *p) { return 0; }
 static inline void set_freezable(void) {}
+static inline void set_freezable_with_signal(void) {}
 
 #define wait_event_freezable(wq, condition)                             \
                 wait_event_interruptible(wq, condition)