Re: Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

Alan Stern
2007-07-05T21:06:08Z

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> > Obviously. Â But I wasn't about the server trying to acquire a lock
> > held by a client. Â I was talking about a client trying to acquire a
> > lock held by _another_ client.
> >
> > If this coincides with the server (or some other task which the server
> > is depending on) being frozen before the clients, the freezer has a
> > problem.
>
> True, but that case can only happen if servers are frozen before clients.
> You don't need a full dependency graph. A simple set sequence of two
> classes of tasks will do.

Just to make things more complicated... Since a server isn't
restricted in what it can do, what happens when one server depends on
another server?

Alan Stern