Re: suspend blockers & Android integration

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2010/6/5 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
>> 2010/6/5 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
>> >> >> > That download might take a minute or two, but that's not an
>> >> >> > justification for the crapplication to run unconfined and prevent
>> >> >> > lower power states.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I agree, but this is not a simple problem to solve.
>> >> >
>> >> > Not with suspend blockers, but with cgroup confinement of crap, it's
>> >> > straight forward.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I don't think is is straight forward. If the a process in the frozen
>> >> group holds a resource that a process in the unfrozen group needs, how
>> >> do deal with that?
>> >
>> > I'm going to fix the framework which puts the group into freeze state
>> > w/o making sure that there is no held shared resource. Come on it's
>> > not rocket science.
>> >
>>
>> I'm not sure which framework you are talking about here, but I don't
>> think there is a single framework that knows about all shared
>> resources.
>
> Damn, it's not me talking about "our framework", you are mentioning
> when it fits your needs.

You said you were going to fix the framework. I did know if you were
talking about the cgroup framework, or the android user-space
frameworks. I don't think either has knowledge about all shared
resources.

>
> If you do not have a clearly defined user space framework, then we
> talk about a completely random conglomeration of applications which
> need to be brought into submission by some global brute force
> approach.
>
> I'm tired of this, really. You just use terminlology as it fits to
> defend the complete design failure of android. But you fail to trick
> me :)
>
> Can you please explain in a consistent way how the application stack
> and the underlying framework (which exists according to android docs)
> is handling events and how the separation of trust level works ?
>

I don't think I can, since I only know small parts of it. I know some
events like input event go though a single thread in our system
process, while other events like network packets (which are also
wakeup events) goes directly to the app.

> We need to know that, otherwise we turn in circles forever.
>
> Thanks,
>
>        tglx



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Arve Hjønnevåg
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