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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Question about process freezing
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:58:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711211458.08243.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4743E252.2010805@gmail.com>

On Wednesday, 21 of November 2007, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> >> Instead of freezing every single user land processes by sending them a
> >> fake signal and waiting for them to go to the refrigerator, why not
> >> freezing the scheduler ?
> > 
> > Because processes can't simply be frozen immediately.  They need to 
> > have a chance to release any important locks or mutexes they may be 
> > holding.
> > 
> 
> You mean any locks held by a frozen process and needed by the suspend
> code path ?

Yes.

Regards,
Rafael

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-21 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-20  9:11 Question about process freezing Franck Bui-Huu
2007-11-20 15:37 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-21  7:46   ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-11-21 13:58     ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-11  2:05 question " Bob YANG
2006-12-11 20:33 ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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