Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Jun 2005 00:31:01 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Freezer Patches. |
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Hi!
(Well, it is just after midnight here :-).
> > > Here are the freezer patches. They were prepared against rc3, but I > > > think they still apply fine against rc5. (Ben, these are the same ones I > > > sent you the other day). > > > > 304 seems ugly and completely useless for mainline > > That's because you don't understand what it's doing. > > The new refrigerator implementation works like this: > > Userspace processes that begin a sys_*sync gain the process flag > PF_SYNCTHREAD for the duration of their syscall.
swsusp1 should not need any special casing of sync, right? We can simply do sys_sync(), then freeze, or something like that. We could even remove sys_sync() completely; it is not needed for correctness.
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