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DateMon, 23 Jun 2008 09:16:01 +0200
FromPavel Machek <>
SubjectRe: freeze vs freezer
Hi!

(replying to *very* old mail).

>>>> We wait until they can continue.
>>>
>>> So if I have a process blocked on an unavilable NFS mount, I can't
>>> suspend?
>>
>> That's correct, you can't.
>>
>> [And I know what you're going to say. ;-)]
>
> Why exactly does suspend/hibernation depend on "TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE" instead
> of a zero preempt_count()? Really what we should do is just iterate over
> all of the actual physical devices and tell each one "Block new IO requests
> preemptably, finish pending DMA, put the hardware in low-power mode, and
> prepare for suspend/hibernate". As long as each driver knows how to do
> those simple things we can have an entirely consistent kernel image for
> both suspend and for hibernation.

Patch would be welcome, actually. It turns out blocking new
IO-requests is not completely trivial.
Pavel
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