Hi! > > Even it were not for this, the whole idea seems misconcieved to me > > anyway. > > I'm sceptical too but several Win9x BIOS vendor suspend paths were > implemented in roughly this way. I don't however see how you can > co-ordinate the freeze with outstanding O_DIRECT DMA to user pages for > one item. I do not see a problem. swsusp process stops all other processes, freezes the drivers, then asks for system snapshot. It certainly does *not* ask for O_DIRECT........ -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms