Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 1/4] freezer-cpu-hotplug core

From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Date: Fri Feb 16 2007 - 04:59:56 EST


On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:29:20AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Well, the suspend code has been developed with the assumption that frozen
> threads stay frozen until _we_ let them thaw by calling thaw_processes(). I'm
> a bit afraid of this change.

Note that only kernel threads created thr' kthread_create are allowed
to exit like this from the refrigerator, that too only when
(kthread_stop_info.k == current). So all other threads should be unaffected
because of this change.

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Regards,
vatsa
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