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.

								Pavel
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