Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

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On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 09:13 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> The only reason (I know of) why we don't handle uninterruptible tasks in the
> freezer is that we're afraid of the suspend process deadlocking with an
> uninterruptible task holding a lock, but AFAICS the probability of such an
> event is extremely small.

What would deadlock specifically ? One of the drivers trying to acquire
that lock ? It would be a driver bug then.

> Also, the powermac suspend will deadlock in such cases, so the fact that
> it doesn't deadlock means that they don't occur very often (if at all).

Ben.


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