Re: [Suspend2][ 15/20] [Suspend2] Attempt to freeze processes.

[Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>]

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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