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SubjectRe: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.
Hi!

> > > 3) trying to treat uninterruptible tasks as non-freezeable should better
> > > be avoided (I tried to implement this in swsusp last year but it caused
> > > vigorous opposition to appear, and it was not Pavel ;-))
> >
> > I'm not suggesting treating them as unfreezeable in the fullest sense. I
> > still signal them, but don't mind if they don't respond. This way, if they
> > do leave that state for some reason (timeout?) at some point, they still
> > get frozen.
>
> Yes, that's exactly what I wanted to do in swsusp. ;-)

It seems dangerous to me. Imagine you treated interruptible tasks like
that...

What prevent task from doing

set_state(UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
schedule(one hour);
write_to_filesystem();
handle_signal()?

I.e. it may do something dangerous just before being catched by
refrigerator.
Pavel
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Thanks, Sharp!
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