Kirill Korotaev wrote: >>> From: Cedric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Sorry for the delay, I somehow managed to overlook your message. >> >> >>> This patch is the first step in making the refrigerator() available >>> to all architectures, even for those without power management. >>> >>> The purpose of such a change is to be able to use the refrigerator() >>> in a new control group subsystem which will implement a control group >>> freezer. >> >> Hm, sounds interesting, but ... >> >> >>> If you think this is safe and not utterly stupid, I'll send the rest >>> of the patchset exporting the refrigerator to all arches. >> >> ... you will need to provide some details, I think. >> >> I also think that it's safe to define TIF_FREEZE for all architectures, but >> the usefulness of it will very much depend on the purpose. :-) I'm sending the full patchset, asap > refrigerator() can be used (and is actually used in OpenVZ containers) to freeze > container processes for checkpointing (live migration). > So this can be used regardless system suspend and on all archs. Exactly ! Thanks, C. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
