[linux-pm] [Suspend-devel] [PATCH -mm 1/2]: PM: Fix handling of stopped tasks

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Hi,

On Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:26, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:12, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > > > Actually, what do you think about this patch? It removes special
> > > > > handling of TASK_TRACED, and should do the trick, too...
> > > > 
> > > > I was surprised, but the patch seems to work okay. Can you replace
> > > > your 1/2 with this one, and see what breaks?
> > > 
> > > I don't think anything will _visibly_ break, because (1) even if the traced
> > > task has TIF_SIGPENDING set unnecessarily, it will just notice there is no
> > > real signal to handle and continue and 
> > 
> > We are generating spurious wakeups, but as you noticed, that should be
> > okay.
> 
> So we can move the check to freezeable().  Fine.

Oops, not so.  We have to reset PF_FREEZE for it too and freezeable() doesn't
do that.

Greetings,
Rafael


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