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DateWed, 31 Jan 2007 09:40:14 +0100 (MET)
FromOliver Neukum <>
SubjectRe: question on resume()
Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 09:33 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> On Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:32, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > Generally, you are safe if your driver only calls wake_up() from a process
> > context, but not from .resume() or .suspend() routines (or from an
> > unfreezeable kernel thread).
>
> Ah, sorry, I've just realized I was wrong. Processes in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
> cannot be frozen! So, the above only applies to wake_up_interruptible().

So the kernel will wait for tasks in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE to finish IO
before it calls suspend()? I am confused.

Regards
Oliver
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