Re: Re: freeze_processes questions

Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-04-07T17:26:18Z

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Hi,

On Thursday, 7 of April 2005 16:43, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
>
> > Whenever this topic comes up, the discussion is always abstract. If
> > someone could think of a lock that might actually deadlock suspending,
> > we look seriously at the issue. In the meantime, all I can say, from
> > roughly three years of developing and testing, is that it never seems to
> > happen. And yes, I know that doesn't necessarily mean it can't.
>
> I agree with Nigel. Certainly in the USB part of the kernel the
> uninterruptible sleeps all have rather short, bounded durations.
> Furthermore they correspond to specific events -- a new device is plugged
> in -- which are unlikely to occur just as the system is going to sleep.

Strangely enough, I agree with him too. :-) Still, Nigel says he is handling
uninterruptible tasks in the way that I was thinking of (as far as I
understand it), which you say is a mistake ...

Greets,
Rafael

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