Re: [linux-pm] Re: Hibernation considerations

Oliver Neukum
2007-07-23T12:29:56Z

Am Montag 23 Juli 2007 schrieb Miklos Szeredi:
> > The reason is that we want them to "park" in safe places, ie. where there
> > are no locks held etc.  Thus, these safe places need to be chosen somehow
> > and since they are not marked throughout the code, we choose the obvious
> > one. :-)
>
> Why shouldn't locks be held?
>
> No locks which are required for suspend must be held, sure.  But
> otherwise holding locks doesn't matter at all.

If you can provide a way to tell them apart, this would work.

Regards
Oliver