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 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-mm (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• STALE292d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH v10 1/2] mm/oom_kill: Thaw the entire OOM victim process
  2025-09-15 · zhongjinji <hidden>
• STALE293d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v9 1/2] mm/oom_kill: Thaw the entire OOM victim process
  2025-09-10 · zhongjinji <hidden>
• STALE299d [PATCH v8 1/3] mm/oom_kill: Introduce thaw_oom_process() for thawing OOM victims
  2025-09-09 · zhongjinji <hidden>
• STALE324d [RFC PATCH v1 2/9] freezer: Introduce API to set per-task freeze priority
  2025-08-07 · Zihuan Zhang <hidden>
• STALE324d [RFC PATCH v1 1/9] freezer: Introduce freeze_priority field in task_struct
  2025-08-07 · Zihuan Zhang <hidden>
• STALE346d [PATCH v5 3/3] treewide: Switch from tsk->comm to tsk->comm_str which is 64 bytes long
  2025-07-16 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE1546d [RFC PATCH 41/47] mm: asi: Annotation of static variables to be nonsensitive
  2022-02-23 · Junaid Shahid <hidden>
• STALE2896d [PATCHv2] pm/reboot: eliminate race between reboot and suspend
  2018-07-31 · Pingfan Liu <hidden>
• STALE3019d [PATCH] mm,oom: Do not unfreeze OOM victim thread.
  2018-03-29 · Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
• STALE3560d [PATCH 3/4] mm, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for exit_oom_victim
  2016-10-04 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE3576d Re: [RFC 3/4] mm, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for exit_oom_victim
  2016-09-10 · Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
• STALE3576d [RFC 3/4] mm, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for exit_oom_victim
  2016-09-01 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE3602d Re: [PATCH 08/10] exit, oom: postpone exit_oom_victim to later
  2016-07-30 · Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
• STALE3659d [PATCH 1/2] freezer, oom: check TIF_MEMDIE on the correct task
  2016-06-27 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE4196d [RFC 1/4] OOM, PM: Do not miss OOM killed frozen tasks
  2014-11-12 · Michal Hocko <hidden>
• STALE4196d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 1/4] freezer: Do not freeze tasks killed by OOM killer
  2014-10-21 · Michal Hocko <hidden>
• STALE4196d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 2/4] freezer: remove obsolete comments in __thaw_task()
  2014-10-21 · Michal Hocko <hidden>
• STALE4283d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 1/3] freezer: check OOM kill while being frozen
  2014-10-08 · Michal Hocko <hidden>
• STALE4283d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 2/3] freezer: remove obsolete comments in __thaw_task()
  2014-10-08 · Michal Hocko <hidden>
• STALE4437d [PATCH 5/5] NFS: avoid deadlocks with loop-back mounted NFS filesystems.
  2014-04-23 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE5363d Re: [patch] oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen before deferring
  2011-09-29 · Michal Hocko <hidden>
• STALE5363d Re: [patch] oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen before deferring
  2011-09-29 · Michal Hocko <hidden>
• STALE5938d [C/R v20][PATCH 18/96] cgroup freezer: interface to freeze a cgroup from within the kernel
  2010-03-17 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE5938d [C/R v20][PATCH 17/96] cgroup freezer: Add CHECKPOINTING state to safeguard container checkpoint
  2010-03-17 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE5938d [C/R v20][PATCH 15/96] cgroup freezer: Fix buggy resume test for tasks frozen with cgroup freezer
  2010-03-17 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE6122d [PATCH v18 07/80] cgroup freezer: Add CHECKPOINTING state to safeguard container checkpoint
  2009-09-24 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE6122d [PATCH v18 05/80] cgroup freezer: Fix buggy resume test for tasks frozen with cgroup freezer
  2009-09-24 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE6122d [PATCH v18 08/80] cgroup freezer: interface to freeze a cgroup from within the kernel
  2009-09-23 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE6179d [RFC v17][PATCH 07/60] cgroup freezer: Add CHECKPOINTING state to safeguard container checkpoint
  2009-07-22 · Oren Laadan <hidden>
• STALE6179d [RFC v17][PATCH 05/60] cgroup freezer: Fix buggy resume test for tasks frozen with cgroup freezer
  2009-07-22 · Oren Laadan <hidden>