On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 15:19 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > I still don't see how blocking applications will cause missed wakeups in > > anything but a buggy application at worst, and even those will > > eventually get the event when they unblock. > > > > What seems to be the confusion? > > During forced suspend, applications are block because they are frozen. > > When an event occurs, the application is notified somehow. But it > can't respond because it is frozen. Hence the event remains sitting in > a kernel queue and the system goes ahead and suspends anyway. The > application doesn't get thawed until the system wakes up at some > indefinite time in the future. If the kernel is awake to put things in queues, we're clearly not suspended and userspace is running ?! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
