[linux-pm] Re: freeze_processes questions

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On Tuesday, 5 of April 2005 20:17, Alan Stern wrote:
> 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.

Right.  So it seems we'll have to force uninterruptible tasks to go to the
refrigerator().

Greets,
Rafael


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