Re: -mm swsusp: do not default to platform/firmware

From: Pavel Machek (pavel_at_ucw.cz)
Date: 07/29/04

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    Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:38:21 +0200
To: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>

    Hi!

    > >If the thread is needed for writing the image to storage, you should
    > >instead set the PF_NOFREEZE process flag when creating the thread.
    > >
    > You know for sleep into mem (s3) we also use
    > 'freeze_processes/refrigerator', and the threads don't write image to
    > storage for S3. Should the threads be set the PF_NOFREEZE? Is there any
    > side effect for S3 if the threads are running?

    Threads that are "NOFREEZE" should be carefull not to do anything bad
    to drivers, and if it works as NOFREEZE for swsusp, it will work in
    S3, too. No need to do additional work of freezing based on new state.

                                                                    Pavel 

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