Hi! > > We currently freeze processes for suspend-to-ram, too. I guess that > > disable_usermodehelper is probably better and that in_suspend() should > > only be used for sanity checks... go with disable_usermodehelper and > > sorry for the noise. > > Here's another possibility: Freeze the workqueue that > call_usermodehelper uses (remember that code I didn't push hard enough > to Andrew?), and let invocations of call_usermodehelper block in > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. In refrigerating processes, don't choke on There may be many devices in the system, and you are going to need quite a lot of RAM for all that... That's why they do not queue it during boot, IIRC. Disabling usermode helper seems right. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!