freezer · Supported

Maintainers

• M "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
• R Pavel Machek <pavel@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.rst
• F include/linux/freezer.h
• F kernel/freezer.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 8 patches in this subsystem on linux-fsdevel, ordered by date desc.

• STALE330d [RFC PATCH v1 2/9] freezer: Introduce API to set per-task freeze priority
  2025-08-07 · Zihuan Zhang <hidden>
• STALE330d [RFC PATCH v1 1/9] freezer: Introduce freeze_priority field in task_struct
  2025-08-07 · Zihuan Zhang <hidden>
• STALE351d [PATCH v5 3/3] treewide: Switch from tsk->comm to tsk->comm_str which is 64 bytes long
  2025-07-16 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE2173d [RFC][PATCH] exec: Freeze the other threads during a multi-threaded exec
  2020-07-27 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE3145d [RFC 5/5] pm: remove kernel thread freezing
  2017-10-03 · "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• STALE3494d [PATCH] fuse: freezing abort when use wait_event_killable{,_exclusive}().
  2016-12-05 · cuilifei <hidden>
• STALE3902d [PATCH 3/3] freezer: warn if anyone is trying to use freezer on kthreads
  2015-10-30 · Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
• STALE3902d [PATCH 1/3] power, vfs: move away from PF_KTHREAD freezing in favor of fs freezing
  2015-10-30 · Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>