[linux-pm] Re: freeze_processes questions

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On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> 1) We can treat uninterruptible tasks as non-freezable (in analogy to stopped
> tasks) - if all of the other tasks are frozen, nothing can wake up an uninterruptible
> task, so this seems to be a safe approach.

Not true at all.  An uninterruptible task can be woken up by an interrupt 
handler.

Alan Stern


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