Re: swsusp 'disk' fails in bk-current - intel_agp at fault?

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Hi,

On Tuesday, 29 of March 2005 23:12, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > I don't really want us to try execve during resume... Could we simply
> > > artifically fail that execve with something if (in_suspend()) return
> > > -EINVAL; [except that in_suspend() just is not there, but there were
> > > some proposals to add it].
> > > 
> > > Or just avoid calling hotplug at all in resume case? And then do
> > > coldplug-like scan when userspace is ready...
> > > 
> > 
> > I am leaning towards calling disable_usermodehelper (not writtent yet)
> > after swsusp completes snapshotting memory. We really don't care about
> > hotplug events in this case and this will allow keeping "normal"
> > resume in drivers as is. What do you think?
> 
> That would certianly do the trick.
> 
> [Or perhaps in_suspend() is slightly nicer solution? People wanted it
> for other stuff (sanity checking, like BUG_ON(in_suspend())), too....]

IMHO, they are not mutually exclusive.    However, by using
disable_usermodehelper we would get rid of the reason (ie hotplug events)
instead of just curing the symptoms (ie execve() during suspend).

Greets,
Rafael


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