On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 16:10 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Heck, for all I care, simply SIGKILL the thing and report it once the > > > user starts looking at his screen again. > > > > Provide incentive for Joe Clicker to improve his app, instead of cope > > with the shit he created. > > That isn't helpful. But if you feel like that I suggest you run with your > memory management protection disabled, it's really on there to deal with > crap code and its giving the wrong incentives. Come to think of it > you might want to remove your seatbelts and any safety catches or airbags > - it only encourages carelessness. > > The reality is you need a sane, generic, race free way to express your > requirements (eg for hard RT) and ditto for constraining the expression > (for 'crapplications') > > Arguing that you don't need to do this isn't useful. Android has > demonstrated a need to do this. RT has a need to do some of this. > Virtualisation wants elements of this etc. Sure, I fully agree with the task and per device QoS stuff. I'm just saying that its good to inform the user that some app is severely mis-behaving. _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
