From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: vatsa@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 1/4] freezer-cpu-hotplug core
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:06:39 +0100
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On Friday, 16 February 2007 10:59, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that's why I said "a bit". ;-)
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