[PATCH 1/6] cgroup_freezer: fix freezer->state setting bug in freezer_change_state()

Tejun Heo tj at kernel.org
Sun Sep 4 11:11:39 PDT 2011


On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:02:06PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Cough. Now it doesn't look right to me ;)
> 
> If the user write "FROZEN" into the control file, we should not
> turn the CGROUP_FROZEN state into CGROUP_FREEZING. Probably this
> is harmless, but this looks wrong and this doesn't match the
> current behaviour, user-visible change.

It's not user-visible as the state is always updated before shown to
userland.  If we're gonna be re-priming freezing on each FROZEN write,
resetting the state to freezing to force state re-calculation is
logical thing to do.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun


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