Hi!
> This could be used to have a process execute any other piece that is
> required to run in the context of the thread. Maybe such a feature could
> help with PTRACE or/and get_user_pages that currently do ugly things to a
> process. It may also allow changing values that so far cannot be
> changed from the outside in the task struct by running a function
> in the context of the process.
Well, we really need slightly more from "running in process context":
we also need "no locks held" for swsusp. (But other uses probably do,
too?)
> Here is a patch against Linus current tree that does this. Note that this
> patch is incomplete at this point and only a basis for further discussion.
> Not all software suspend checkpoints are useful for a notifier chain. We
> would need to inspect several cases where drivers/kernel threads have
> special functionality for software suspend.
I guess I'd prefer if you left "refrigerator()" and "try_to_freeze()"
functions in; there are about 1000 drivers that know/use them, and
some patches are probably in the queue....
Pavel
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