On 11/01, Petr Mladek wrote:

On Tue 2017-10-31 12:48:52, Miroslav Benes wrote:

quoted

+		if (task->flags & PF_KTHREAD) {
+			/*
+			 * Wake up a kthread which still has not been migrated.
+			 */
+			wake_up_process(task);

I have just noticed that freezer used wake_up_state(p, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
IMHO, we should do so as well.

I won't argue, but...

wake_up_process() wakes also tasks in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state.
These might not be ready for an unexpected wakeup. For example,
see concat_dev_erase() in drivers/mtd/mtdcontact.c.

I'd say that concat_dev_erase() should be fixed, any code should be ready
for spurious wakeup.

Note also that wake_up_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) won't wakeup the TASK_IDLE
kthreads, and most of the kthreads which use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE should use
TASK_IDLE today, because in most cases TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE was used to not
contribute to loadavg.

Oleg.