linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] PM/Freezer: Make thaw_processes() thaw only userspace tasks

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Message-ID: <20120130222708.GD27616@google.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:27:08 -0800
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	rjw@...k.pl, pavel@....cz, len.brown@...el.com,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] PM/Freezer: Make thaw_processes() thaw only
 userspace tasks

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 03:53:05AM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> Yes, I was aware that it introduces such a window. But I ignored it in the
> interest of making the patch series sensible (as in, for example, patch
> 2/4 wouldn't make much sense without patch 1/4).
> Maybe I will interchange patch 1 and patch 2 and just reword the patch
> descriptions suitably so that they still make sense..

Yeah, I think saying sth like "Make extra calls to thaw_kthread in
preparation for blah blah.." should do.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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