On 12/05/2011 11:00 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > (cc'ing Oleg) > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 10:55:51PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> I wanted these APIs to be generic, not restricted to work only for userspace >> processes. Both freezer_do_not_count() and freezer_count() are effective only >> when current->mm is non-NULL (ie., only for userspace ones). >> I think I have documented this in the patch which added these things to the >> 2 APIs. See commit 6a76b7a in linux-pm/linux-next. > > I see. Oleg was curious about the ->mm condition too and IIRC there's > no reason for that restriction. Maybe removing that in another patch > and using the count functions is better? > Oh well, then yes, that sounds like a better idea. Will send patches for that. Thank you. Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat
