lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20070704234523.GC2719@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Thu, 5 Jul 2007 01:45:23 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Cc:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, rjw@...k.pl,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, mjg59@...f.ucam.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	nigel@...el.suspend2.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

On Tue 2007-07-03 21:32:20, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007 schrieb Miklos Szeredi:
> > > And a further question. The freezer is not atomic. What do you do
> > > if a task not yet frozen calls sys_sync(), but fuse is already frozen?
> > 
> > What do you do if a task not yet frozen writes to a pipe, on the other
> > end of which is a task already frozen?

There's some difference between uninterruptible and interruptible
sleep I'd say.

> > It doesn't matter.  The only thing that should matter during suspend
> > (not hibernate) is saving the state of devices to ram, and putting the
> > devices to sleep.
> 
> Well, but you did remove sys_sync() from the freezer, which is
> and must be called in the hibernate path.

Not "must". In fact, hibernation should be safe without sys_sync(). It
is just user un-friendly.

									Pavel
-- 
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ