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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix failure to resume from initrds
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:20:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070914122018.GA1671@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709141422.18788.rjw@sisk.pl>

Hi!

> From: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
> 
> Commit 831441862956fffa17b9801db37e6ea1650b0f69 (Freezer: make kernel threads
> nonfreezable by default) breaks freezing when attempting to resume from an
> initrd, because the init (which is freezeable) spins while waiting for another
> thread to run /linuxrc, but doesn't check whether it has been told to enter
> the refrigerator. The original patch replaced a call to try_to_freeze() with a
> call to yield(). I believe a simple reversion is wrong because
> if !CONFIG_PM_SLEEP, try_to_freeze() is a noop. It should still yield.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

ACK.
								Pavel

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-14 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-14 12:22 [PATCH] Fix failure to resume from initrds Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-14 12:20 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-11  3:54 Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-11 11:04 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-11 11:27   ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-11 11:55     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-11 13:01       ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-11 13:12       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-11 13:23         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-11 13:41           ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-11 19:25             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-11 14:39           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-11 16:27             ` Pavel Machek

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