Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] freezer: add unsafe versions of freezable helpers

From: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 11:23:18 +0200

* Colin Cross <[email-masked]> wrote:

> NFS calls the freezable helpers with locks held, which is unsafe
> and caused lockdep warnings when 6aa9707 "lockdep: check that no
> locks held at freeze time" was applied (reverted in dbf520a).
> Add new *_unsafe versions of the helpers that will not run the
> lockdep test when 6aa9707 is reapplied, and call them from NFS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  fs/nfs/inode.c          |  2 +-
>  fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c       |  2 +-
>  fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c       |  4 ++--
>  include/linux/freezer.h | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  net/sunrpc/sched.c      |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
> index 1f94167..53cbee5 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c
> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ int nfs_wait_bit_killable(void *word)
>  {
>  	if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
>  		return -ERESTARTSYS;
> -	freezable_schedule();
> +	freezable_schedule_unsafe();

I'd suggest naming such variants _unkillable() instead of _unsafe().

There's nothing inherently 'unsafe' about it: the user asked for a hard 
NFS mount and is getting it: with the side effect that it exposes the 
machine to network delays in a 'hard' way as well. Which means suspend may 
block indefinitely as well on network failure.

So it's two conflicting user requirements: 'hard NFS mount' and 'suspend 
now'. We pick the lesser evil, the requirement that is considered higher 
prio: the hard NFS mount in this case.

Thanks,

	Ingo