Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend

Pavel Machek
2009-03-03T13:57:50Z

Hi!

> >> If you ignore wakelocks with timeouts, the current
> >> wakelock interface can be implemented with a global atomic_t to
> >> prevent suspend, and a per wakelock atomic_t to prevent a single
> >> client from changing the global reference count by more than one.
> >>
> >> There are a couple of reasons that I have not done this. It removes
> >> the ability to easily inspect the system when it is not suspending.
> >
> > Care to elaborate?
>
> If you have a single atomic_t and it is not 0, you do not know who
> incremented it.

Which is okay for already debugged system. For debugging, yes some
support can be nice.

Pavel
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