linux-kernel - Re: Bug in disk event polling

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Date:	Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:02:27 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug in disk event polling

On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > > Given the stuff async is used for, maybe just make all async execution
> > > freezable?
> > 
> > That probably won't work.  What if a driver relies on async thread
> > execution to carry out its I/O?
> 
> Well, we use async in the suspend code itself. :-)

Yeah, I remembered that after sending the email message.

Alan Stern

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