Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: removing refrigerator does not help with s2ram vs. fuse deadlocks (was Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway) | Date | Thu, 5 Jul 2007 17:27:35 +0200 |
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On Thursday, 5 July 2007 17:03, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:04:47PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Thursday, 5 July 2007 16:39, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Why? > > > > You have processes that don't react to signals, because some other user land > > task is misbehaving. I'd call that ugly at the very least. > > It already happens with, say, NFS. Don't think about it in terms of a > userland task misbehaving - think of it in terms of a resource becoming > unavailable.
I think there's a difference between a userland task playing the role of a resource and a "real" external resource the kernel doesn't control.
IMO, userland tasks should not have the power to affect each other as though they were parts of the kernel.
Greetings, Rafael
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