From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] giving freezer well-defined semantics
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 10:16:39 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1507081015120.10183@pobox.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9412727.0bKgPF9YKr@vostro.rjw.lan>
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> OK, it is necessary to ensure that the contents of the image will be
> consistent with the state of filesystems on the storage media, so
> everything that may change that state should be "frozen" before the
> image is created, but "frozen" in terms of "no persistent state changes
> from now on" rather than in terms of "no forward progress from now on".
Yeah. So again, why do we even have freezer for so many kernel threads at
all? :)
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-08 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-07 20:42 Jiri Kosina
2015-07-07 21:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-07-07 21:13 ` Jiri Kosina
2015-07-07 23:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-07-08 8:16 ` Jiri Kosina [this message]
2015-07-08 21:55 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-07-09 11:25 ` Jan Kara
2015-07-10 0:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-07-11 5:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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