On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Montag, 18. Januar 2010 22:06:36 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > I was concerned about another problem, though, which is what happens if the > > suspend process runs in parallel with a memory allocation that started earlier > > and happens to do some I/O. I that case the suspend process doesn't know > > about the I/O done by the mm subsystem and may disturb it in principle. > > How could this happen? Who would allocate that memory? > Tasks won't be frozen while they are allocating memory. The majority of kernel threads are not freezable, but I agree it's rather low risk. Rafael _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
