Re: [RFC 5/5] pm: remove kernel thread freezing

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue Oct 03 2017 - 16:38:41 EST


On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > This point I don't understand. What exactly do you mean?
>
> Hibernation:
>
> We freeze, do system snapshot, unfreeze, and write image to
> disk.

Where/why do you unfreeze between creating the snapshot and writing it
out?

Again, I agree that the (rare) kthreads that are actually "creating" new
I/O have to be somehow frozen and require special care.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs