Hi. On Wednesday 18 July 2007 17:29:30 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > The patches in these series update the freezer to eliminate some existing > shortcomings, so please consider them as 2.6.23 material. > > The patches do the following: > * update the freezer documentation to describe, previously omitted, important > � reason for freezing tasks (ie. memory shrinking) > * remove sys_sync() from the freezer and make the suspend/hibernation code > � invoke it explicitly > * prevent new tasks from inheriting TIF_FREEZE set from the parents > * introduce freezer-firendly wrappers around wait_event_interruptible() > � and wait_event_interruptible_timeout() > * prevent the freezer from sending signals to kernel threads I've sent acks for a couple, but not all. No ack for the sys_sync removal because I think this is just a work around for fuse issues, and fuse should be fixed (getting fuse tasks frozen post-sys_sync makes far more sense to me). No ack for the other patches because I haven't put the time into considering them. Regards, Nigel -- See http://www.tuxonice.net for Howtos, FAQs, mailing lists, wiki and bugzilla info.
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