linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Thaw userspace and kernel space separately.

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Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:26:03 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...uxmail.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Thaw userspace and kernel space separately.

On Monday, 23 October 2006 01:48, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Modify process thawing so that we can thaw kernel space without thawing
> userspace, and thaw kernelspace first. This will be useful in later
> patches, where I intend to get swsusp thawing kernel threads only before
> seeking to free memory.

Please explain why you think it will be necessary/useful.

I remember a discussion about it some time ago that didn't indicate
we would need/want to do this.

Greetings,
Rafael

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