Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: >> Instead of freezing every single user land processes by sending them a >> fake signal and waiting for them to go to the refrigerator, why not >> freezing the scheduler ? > > Because processes can't simply be frozen immediately. They need to > have a chance to release any important locks or mutexes they may be > holding. > You mean any locks held by a frozen process and needed by the suspend code path ? thanks, Franck _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
