Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945929AbXBPJ7k (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:59:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945930AbXBPJ7j (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:59:39 -0500 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:37553 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945929AbXBPJ7j (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:59:39 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:29:30 +0530 From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Oleg Nesterov , Gautham R Shenoy , akpm@osdl.org, paulmck@us.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu, dipankar@in.ibm.com, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 1/4] freezer-cpu-hotplug core Message-ID: <20070216095930.GA21501@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: vatsa@in.ibm.com References: <20070214144031.GA15257@in.ibm.com> <20070216071617.GB4527@in.ibm.com> <20070216081209.GB2829@in.ibm.com> <200702161029.21560.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200702161029.21560.rjw@sisk.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 18 On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:29:20AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Well, the suspend code has been developed with the assumption that frozen > threads stay frozen until _we_ let them thaw by calling thaw_processes(). I'm > a bit afraid of this change. Note that only kernel threads created thr' kthread_create are allowed to exit like this from the refrigerator, that too only when (kthread_stop_info.k == current). So all other threads should be unaffected because of this change. -- Regards, vatsa - 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/