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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

  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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