Re: Re: freeze_processes questions

Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-04-05T18:33:23Z

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On Tuesday, 5 of April 2005 20:17, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > 1) We can treat uninterruptible tasks as non-freezable (in analogy to stopped
> > tasks) - if all of the other tasks are frozen, nothing can wake up an uninterruptible
> > task, so this seems to be a safe approach.
>
> Not true at all. An uninterruptible task can be woken up by an interrupt
> handler.

Right. So it seems we'll have to force uninterruptible tasks to go to the
refrigerator().

Greets,
Rafael

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