Re: [PATCH] stop on cpu lost

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Jun 22 2006 - 17:44:03 EST


Hi!

> >remove infrastructure which would, for example, allow "ps" to show
> >such tasks. Perhaps such infrastructure should remain so long as
> >there are tasks there.
>
> They'll be in the global tasklist, so there should be no reason why
> they couldn't be migrated over to an online CPU with taskset. Shouldn't
> require any rewrites, IIRC.
>
> But after swsusp comes back up, it will be bringing up the same number
> of CPUs as went down, won't it? So you shouldn't get into that
> situation where you'd need to kill stuff, should you?

Well... unless something goes *very* wrong, we wake with same number
of CPUs. I've seen it fail in error cases (went to sleep with dual
cpus, but could not kick the second cpu to life during resume).
Pavel
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