Hi.
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 23:45, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Call the freezer code to get processes frozen, and abort suspending if
> > that fails. May be called multiple times as we thaw kernel space (only)
> > if we need to free memory to meet constraints.
>
> Current code seems to free memory without need to thaw/re-freeze
> kernel threads. Have you found bugs in that, or is this unneccessary?
Did you read my other email? Try it with a swap file on a journalled
filesystem, in a situation where freeing memory will force the swap file to
be used.
Regards,
Nigel
> > +static int attempt_to_freeze(void)
> > +{
> > + int result;
> > +
> > + /* Stop processes before checking again */
> > + thaw_processes(FREEZER_ALL_THREADS);
> > + suspend_prepare_status(CLEAR_BAR, "Freezing processes");
> > + result = freeze_processes();
> > +
> > + if (result) {
> > + set_result_state(SUSPEND_ABORTED);
> > + set_result_state(SUSPEND_FREEZING_FAILED);
> > + } else
> > + are_frozen = 1;
> > +
> > + return result;
> > +}
> > +
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