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freezer: Clarify that only cgroup1 freezer uses PM freezer
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:55:55 +0000 (07:55 -1000)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:10:27 +0000 (20:10 +0100)
commit8e4ec90701efec7f2814c89b398d6d4272636814
tree61ef1136761dd46b494048b2045324c4b193aeb3
parentea358066ded351036cb8b69c424a05e223472a03
freezer: Clarify that only cgroup1 freezer uses PM freezer

cgroup1 freezer piggybacks on the PM freezer, which inadvertently allowed
userspace to produce uninterruptible tasks at will. To avoid the issue,
cgroup2 freezer switched to a separate job control based mechanism. While
this happened a long time ago, the code and comment haven't been updated
making it confusing to people who aren't familiar with the history.

Rename cgroup_freezing() to cgroup1_freezing() and update comments on top of
freezing() and frozen() to clarify that cgroup2 freezer isn't covered by the
PM freezer mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aPZ3q6Hm865NicBC@slm.duckdns.org
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
include/linux/freezer.h
kernel/cgroup/legacy_freezer.c
kernel/freezer.c