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  1. Jul 22, 2008
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      sysdev: Pass the attribute to the low level sysdev show/store function · 4a0b2b4d
      Andi Kleen authored
      
      This allow to dynamically generate attributes and share show/store
      functions between attributes. Right now most attributes are generated
      by special macros and lots of duplicated code. With the attribute
      passed it's instead possible to attach some data to the attribute
      and then use that in shared low level functions to do different things.
      
      I need this for the dynamically generated bank attributes in the x86
      machine check code, but it'll allow some further cleanups.
      
      I converted all users in tree to the new show/store prototype. It's a single
      huge patch to avoid unbisectable sections.
      
      Runtime tested: x86-32, x86-64
      Compiled only: ia64, powerpc
      Not compile tested/only grep converted: sh, arm, avr32
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      4a0b2b4d
  2. Jan 25, 2008
  3. Jul 17, 2007
    • Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar
      Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default · 83144186
      Rafael J. Wysocki authored
      
      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: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Acked-by: default avatarNigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
      Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      83144186
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