linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix failure to resume from initrds.

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Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:27:19 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...a.org.au>, nigel@...pend2.net,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix failure to resume from initrds.

Hi!

> > > Anyway, yes, init is freezable, but should it be?
> > > 
> > > I mean, shouldn't we rather add PF_NOFREEZE to kernel_init()?
> > 
> > Argh, no.  PF_NOFREEZE is inherited by the children.
> 
> Umm. All of this is __init code - why is freezability even an issue? We 
> shouldn't be suspending at this point anyway afaik..

We want to do resume sometime around here, and resume wants to run
with userspace frozen, as does suspend.
									Pavel
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