freeze_task(9)

🧊 freeze_task(9) 🧊

okay bestie, this one comes from the Kernel API Manual and it's literally about sending a freeze request to a given task. no cap, that's the whole assignment 💅✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

freeze_task — send a freeze request to given task 🧊🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool freeze_task (struct task_struct *p );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• p — the task to send the request to. 🎯

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

If p is freezing, the freeze request is sent either by sending a fake signal — if it's not a kernel thread — or by waking it up — if it is a kernel thread. 🌙💫

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💖 RETURN 💖

• false — if p is not freezing or already frozen 🧊
• true — otherwise ✅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./kernel/freezer.c
• freezing_slow_path(9)
• set_freezable(9)

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mwah 💋 that's the whole page, bestie. source/version: ./kernel, date: October 2026, starring freeze_task(9) — periodt. 🎀✨🌈