futex: use freezable blocking call
authorColin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Mon, 6 May 2013 23:50:18 +0000 (23:50 +0000)
committerArve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:46:16 +0000 (15:46 -0700)
commit5ccf7dfeea5b5e2e63a6d45e85335c788a69e7b2
tree52296bb123a61128435008831851e7fc65cd21c2
parent947377f9be3f730f91a27d068225ba00db760ccd
futex: use freezable blocking call

Avoid waking up every thread sleeping in a futex_wait call during
suspend and resume by calling a freezable blocking call.  Previous
patches modified the freezer to avoid sending wakeups to threads
that are blocked in freezable blocking calls.

This call was selected to be converted to a freezable call because
it doesn't hold any locks or release any resources when interrupted
that might be needed by another freezing task or a kernel driver
during suspend, and is a common site where idle userspace tasks are
blocked.

Change-Id: I9ccab9c2d201adb66c85432801cdcf43fc91e94f
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
kernel/futex.c