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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] freezer : add the TIF_FREEZE flag to all archs
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:36:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712101736.29676.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47594F8C.7070900@fr.ibm.com>

On Friday, 7 of December 2007, Cedric Le Goater wrote:
> From: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>

Sorry for the delay, I somehow managed to overlook your message.

> This patch is the first step in making the refrigerator() available 
> to all architectures, even for those without power management. 
>
> The purpose of such a change is to be able to use the refrigerator() 
> in a new control group subsystem which will implement a control group
> freezer.

Hm, sounds interesting, but ...
 
> If you think this is safe and not utterly stupid, I'll send the rest
> of the patchset exporting the refrigerator to all arches.

... you will need to provide some details, I think.

I also think that it's safe to define TIF_FREEZE for all architectures, but
the usefulness of it will very much depend on the purpose. :-)

Greetings,
Rafael

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-10 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <47594F8C.7070900@fr.ibm.com>
2007-12-05 20:27 ` [linux-pm] [PATCH][RFC] freezer : add the TIF_FREEZE flag to all archs Pavel Machek
2007-12-10 16:36 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2007-12-10 16:42   ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-12-11 12:31     ` Cedric Le Goater

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