On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 09:13 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > The only reason (I know of) why we don't handle uninterruptible tasks in the > freezer is that we're afraid of the suspend process deadlocking with an > uninterruptible task holding a lock, but AFAICS the probability of such an > event is extremely small. What would deadlock specifically ? One of the drivers trying to acquire that lock ? It would be a driver bug then. > Also, the powermac suspend will deadlock in such cases, so the fact that > it doesn't deadlock means that they don't occur very often (if at all). Ben. _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
