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freezer: don't unnecessarily set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly
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Some drivers set PF_NOFREEZE in their kthread functions which is
completely unnecessary and racy - some part of freezer code doesn't
consider cases where PF_NOFREEZE is set asynchronous to freezer
operations.

In general, there's no reason to allow setting PF_NOFREEZE explicitly.
Remove them and change the documentation to note that setting
PF_NOFREEZE directly isn't allowed.

-v2: Dropped change to twl4030-irq.c as it no longer uses PF_NOFREEZE.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@profusion.mobi>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: wwang <wei_wang@realsil.com.cn>
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Tejun Heo committed Nov 21, 2011
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
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Expand Up @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ III. Which kernel threads are freezable?

Kernel threads are not freezable by default. However, a kernel thread may clear
PF_NOFREEZE for itself by calling set_freezable() (the resetting of PF_NOFREEZE
directly is strongly discouraged). From this point it is regarded as freezable
directly is not allowed). From this point it is regarded as freezable
and must call try_to_freeze() in a suitable place.

IV. Why do we do that?
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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions drivers/bluetooth/btmrvl_main.c
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Expand Up @@ -475,8 +475,6 @@ static int btmrvl_service_main_thread(void *data)

init_waitqueue_entry(&wait, current);

current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;

for (;;) {
add_wait_queue(&thread->wait_q, &wait);

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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions drivers/mfd/twl6030-irq.c
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Expand Up @@ -138,8 +138,6 @@ static int twl6030_irq_thread(void *data)
static const unsigned max_i2c_errors = 100;
int ret;

current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;

while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
int i;
union {
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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions drivers/staging/rts_pstor/rtsx.c
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Expand Up @@ -466,8 +466,6 @@ static int rtsx_control_thread(void *__dev)
struct rtsx_chip *chip = dev->chip;
struct Scsi_Host *host = rtsx_to_host(dev);

current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;

for (;;) {
if (wait_for_completion_interruptible(&dev->cmnd_ready))
break;
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