Re: question on resume()

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Mon Jan 29 2007 - 06:35:32 EST


Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 12:24 schrieb Nigel Cunningham:
> Hi.
>
> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:06 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > may a driver call wake_up() while doing resume() ?
>
> I assume you mean waking a userspace process from drivers_resume(). If
> so, the answer is no - processes will still be frozen at the point. In
> the case of Suspend2, the LRU pages will still not have been read
> either, so Suspend2 users would hate you for making hibernation crash
> and burn :)

If so, how do I notify tasks presumably about to be thawed that their
IO failed?

Regards
Oliver
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