SK_KILLABLE assuming that wait/down/whatever _killable can only fail if we can not return to the usermode. TASK_TRACED is another obvious example. The offending commit was to resolve freezer hang during system PM operations caused by KILLABLE sleeps in network filesystems. wait_event_freezekillable(), which depends on the spurious KILLABLE wakeup, was added by f06ac72e92 "cifs, freezer: add wait_event_freezekillable and have cifs use it" to be used to implement killable & freezable sleeps in network filesystems. To prepare for reverting of 27920651fe, this patch reimplements wait_event_freezekillable() using freezer_do_not_count/freezer_count() so that it doesn't depend on the spurious KILLABLE wakeup. This isn't very nice but should do for now. [tj: Refreshed patch to apply to linus/master and updated commit description on Rafael's request.] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki C