Re: removing refrigerator does not help with s2ram vs. fuse deadlocks (was Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway)

Matthew Garrett
2007-07-05T15:03:51Z

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:04:47PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 July 2007 16:39, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Why?
>
> You have processes that don't react to signals, because some other user land
> task is misbehaving. I'd call that ugly at the very least.

It already happens with, say, NFS. Don't think about it in terms of a
userland task misbehaving - think of it in terms of a resource becoming
unavailable.

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