Re: [RFC 5/5] pm: remove kernel thread freezing

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Oct 03 2017 - 17:24:39 EST


On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:59:00 PM CEST Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:53:13 PM CEST Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > Now that all filesystems which used to rely on kthread
> > freezing have been converted to filesystem freeze/thawing
> > we can remove the kernel kthread freezer.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I like this one. :-)

However, suspend_freeze/thaw_processes() require some more work.

In particular, the freezing of workqueues is being removed here
without a replacement.

Thanks,
Rafael