Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932948AbXAaKa5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:30:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932950AbXAaKa5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:30:57 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:51328 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932948AbXAaKa4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:30:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:30:45 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Oliver Neukum Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alan Stern , Oliver Neukum , pm list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-pm] question on resume() Message-ID: <20070131103045.GA19640@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200701291206.39637.oneukum@suse.de> <200701311004.19477.oneukum@suse.de> <20070131093653.GA19643@elf.ucw.cz> <200701311114.55685.oliver@neukum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200701311114.55685.oliver@neukum.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1507 Lines: 44 Hi! > > > So, this means, on suspend(): > > > > > > 1. Don't worry about TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE > > > 2. Do worry about TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE > > > We have to cease IO and must not call wake_up_interruptible() > > > > "cease IO"? No, I believe it is enough not to start new I/O. Userspace > > is frozen at that point, it can't ask you to do I/O. > > > > > Isn't that a race until suspend() is called? > > > > I do not think so. > > What about URBs in flight which are waited for with TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE? Same thing as if someone sent a signal to that process. (We are talking about user processes here, right? Kernel threads have to take care themselves). > > > On resume(): > > > > > > 1. Don't worry about TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE > > > 2. Do not restart IO that may call wake_up_interruptible() > > > > > > When do we restart such IO? > > > > We reuse signal handling code to do that for us. It is same situation > > as when someone signals task doing I/O. > > What happens to tasks in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE which are frozen? > Are they interrupted and frozen? Interrupted with fake signal, then frozen, yes. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/