linux-kernel - Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

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Date:	Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:39:14 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, david@...g.hm,
	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	arve@...roid.com, mjg59@...f.ucam.org, pavel@....cz,
	florian@...kler.org, rjw@...k.pl, peterz@...radead.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, menage@...gle.com, david-b@...bell.net,
	James.Bottomley@...e.de, arjan@...radead.org, swmike@....pp.se,
	galibert@...ox.com, dipankar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

> I have a similar problem with the whole pm_qos subsystem, as I've said
> earlier.  If some badly behaved application claims to want 0us
> wireless latency, and keeps the radio on all the time, there is no way
> for me to find out which is the badly behaved application --- even

Well firstly you want limits so SELinux says "No" (or rlimit or similar)
and secondly you want sysfs views.

This is like file permissions - its not hard
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