Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread

[david]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> On Thursday, August 05, 2010, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > My proposal would never freeze a subset of processes.
> >
> > what my proposal:
> >
> > only consider the activity of a subset of processes when deciding if we
> > should suspend or not. If the decision is to suspend, freeze everything.
>
> That alone doesn't allow you to handle the race Matthew was referring to
> (ie. wakeup event happening right after you've decided to suspend).
>
> A mechanism of making a decision alone is not sufficient, you also need a
> mechanism to avoid races between wakeup events and suspend process.

I thought you just posted that there was a new feature that would be able 
to abort the suspend and so that race was closed.

David Lang
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