Re: peculiar suspend/resume bug.

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

Hi,

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 05:53, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:41:40AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>  > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 08:37:28PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > 
>  > > cpufreq-applet crashes as soon as the cpu goes offline.
>  > > Now, the applet should be written to deal with this scenario more
>  > > gracefully, but I'm questioning whether or not userspace should
>  > > *see* the unplug/replug that suspend does at all.
>  > 
>  > As Nigel mentioned, cpu unplug happens just before processes are frozen, 
>  > so I guess there's a chance for it to be scheduled. On the other hand, 
>  > it's not unreasonable for CPUs to be unplugged during runtime anyway - 
>  > perhaps userspace should be able to deal with that?
> 
> Sure, I'm not debating that point. It's a bug in the applet that needs fixing,
> but it also seems that we could be saving a whole lot of pain by
> hiding this from userspace at suspend/resume time.

Yes, that's the plan, but for now the freezer is not SMP-friendly, so to
speak, and we have some work to do to make it possible.

Greetings,
Rafael


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