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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 17:15:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> cc: oliver@...kum.org, <pavel@....cz>, <paulus@...ba.org>, <johannes@...solutions.net>, <rjw@...k.pl>, <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>, <benh@...nel.crashing.org> Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > I fear, that your efforts to "save" the freezer are in vain. It is > already moderately hackish with that PF_FREEZER_SKIP and the kernel > dotted randomly with try_to_freeze() calls, but adding bandaids to try > to order freezing userspace processes in the right order would just > make it a horrible mess. I agree that bandaids won't work. What's needed is something more radical. Things like FUSE must be written so that the kernel parts _can_ freeze even while they are waiting for a response from a user thread. Alan Stern - 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/
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