On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 22:03 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Here's a different example. A process is waiting for a keypress, but > because it's badly written it's also drawing to the screen at 60 frames > per second and preventing the system from every going to idle. How do > you quiesce the system while still ensuring that the keypress will be > delivered to the application? To me it's somewhat of a negative for suspend blockers. Since to solve the problem you give above you would have to use a suspend blocker in an asynchronous way (locked in an interrupt, released in a thread too) assuming I understand your example. I've had my share of semaphore nightmares, and I'm not too excited to see a protection scheme (i.e. a lock) which allows asynchronous usage like suspend blockers. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html