Re: pcmcia resume 60 second hang. Re: [patch 00/69] -stable review

[Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>]

Hi.

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 14:33 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:19 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> > > 
> > > How about blocking brk() and mmap(MAP_ANONYMOUS) in addition to
> > > the filesystem VFS callers?   Or is that starting to get messy again?
> > 
> > Yeah. Getting messy again :)
> 
> Indeed. And also misses the point - the point being that we don't actually 
> need to freeze anything at all most of the time. There's nothing wrong 
> with making memory allocations etc.
> 
> And yes, suspend is different from hibernate. I can see how hibernate 
> people are worried about people writing to things after doing the 
> snapshot, but those concerns don't exist with suspend. With suspend, the 
> biggest concern is accessing a device after it has been suspended, but on 
> the other hand, also the fact that we end up having driver writers used 
> to the system being "runnable", so they do things that really do require a 
> full-fledged system (and sometimes that means just some delayed action 
> using a kernel thread, other times it seems to rely on more complex 
> behaviour like firmware loading :^p )

Yeah, but they can't. Even after the freezing of processes has been
removed from the normal suspend to ram path, we're still going to have
this issue with the suspend to ram after writing a hibernation image
path.

Regards,

Nigel

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