Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu May 27 2010 - 15:29:57 EST


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:25:38PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> The scheduler can happily do this, the power management will also
> recognize STOPPED processes as no impediment to suspend.

But wakeup events won't be delivered to STOPped processes, and there's
also the race of an application being in the middle of handling a wakeup
event when you send it the signal.

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