Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 May 2010 22:21:08 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6) |
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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 02:10:06PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> [100513 13:29]: > > And if that's the application that's listening to the network socket > > that you want to get a wakeup event from? This problem is hard. I'd love > > there to be an elegant solution based on using the scheduler, but I > > really don't know what it is. > > Your system should wake up to an interrupt in that case. Then you have > the trusted apps running that can decide if the untrusted apps should > be continued or not.
What race-free mechanism do you use to ensure that? It's very easy to handwave these problems away. It's very difficult to actually write an implementation that works.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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