On Wednesday, 21 of November 2007, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > 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 ? Yes. Regards, Rafael _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
