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

Matthew Garrett
2007-07-03T17:02:33Z

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:57:17PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:03:33PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > Quite apart from the sync() matter, _any_ synchronous call to a FUSE
> > > filesystem during STR will cause trouble. Even if the user task
> > > implementing the filesystem isn't frozen, when it tries to carry out
> > > some I/O to a suspended device it will either:
> > >
> > > block until the system wakes up, or
> >
> > For the suspend to RAM case, that sounds absolutely fine.
>
> It's not so good when your suspend process has to wait for the call to
> complete!

Why would it have to? Sorry, I suspect I'm missing something obvious
here.

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