Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754199Ab0FVGSp (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:18:45 -0400 Received: from ist.d-labs.de ([213.239.218.44]:47786 "EHLO mx01.d-labs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751815Ab0FVGSo (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:18:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:18:03 +0200 From: Florian Mickler To: markgross@thegnar.org Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel Cc: 640e9920@gmail.com, Alan Stern , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, Matthew Garrett , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Dmitry Torokhov , Arve =?ISO-8859-15?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Neil Brown Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM: Avoid losing wakeup events during suspend Message-ID: <20100622081803.4d472542@schatten.dmk.lab> In-Reply-To: <20100622015837.GC12795@gvim.org> References: <20100621055522.GE9735@gvim.org> <20100622015837.GC12795@gvim.org> X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1042 Lines: 36 On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:58:37 -0700 mark gross <640e9920@gmail.com> wrote: > wrong. They are about 1) adding opportunistic suspend, and 2) adding > critical sections to block suspend. > > No race issues where ever talked about until alternative solutions > where put up. The whole and only reason to even define the term "critical sections" is when you need to define "a race". Or vice versa. A race is prevented by defining critical sections and protecting these against concurrent access. [..snip..] [some rant that alan is not familiar with android userspace..] Are you suggesting that only android developers are supposed to talk about this? This is a pretty basic thing. It has only to do with system suspend. (And using system suspend aggressively) > > --mgross > Cheers, Flo -- 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/