Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] freezer,umh: Clean up freezer/initrd interaction
From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-10-14 09:13:21
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On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 12:07:56PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
handle_initrd() marks itself as PF_FREEZER_SKIP in order to ensure that the UMH, which is going to freeze the system, doesn't indefinitely wait for it's caller. Rework things by adding UMH_FREEZABLE to indicate the completion is freezable. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> --- include/linux/umh.h | 9 +++++---- init/do_mounts_initrd.c | 10 +--------- kernel/umh.c | 8 ++++++++ 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
This looks much better to me: Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Just a question on the old code:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- a/include/linux/umh.h +++ b/include/linux/umh.h@@ -11,10 +11,11 @@ struct cred; struct file; -#define UMH_NO_WAIT 0 /* don't wait at all */ -#define UMH_WAIT_EXEC 1 /* wait for the exec, but not the process */ -#define UMH_WAIT_PROC 2 /* wait for the process to complete */ -#define UMH_KILLABLE 4 /* wait for EXEC/PROC killable */ +#define UMH_NO_WAIT 0x00 /* don't wait at all */ +#define UMH_WAIT_EXEC 0x01 /* wait for the exec, but not the process */ +#define UMH_WAIT_PROC 0x02 /* wait for the process to complete */ +#define UMH_KILLABLE 0x04 /* wait for EXEC/PROC killable */ +#define UMH_FREEZABLE 0x08 /* wait for EXEC/PROC freezable */ struct subprocess_info { struct work_struct work; --- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c +++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c@@ -79,19 +79,11 @@ static void __init handle_initrd(void) init_mkdir("/old", 0700); init_chdir("/old"); - /* - * In case that a resume from disk is carried out by linuxrc or one of - * its children, we need to tell the freezer not to wait for us. - */ - current->flags |= PF_FREEZER_SKIP; - info = call_usermodehelper_setup("/linuxrc", argv, envp_init, GFP_KERNEL, init_linuxrc, NULL, NULL); if (!info) return; - call_usermodehelper_exec(info, UMH_WAIT_PROC); - - current->flags &= ~PF_FREEZER_SKIP;
How was this supposed to work if it raced with the freezer checking the flag? Will