[linux-pm] [PATCH 01/13] PM: Add wake lock api.

[Uli Luckas]

On Friday, 13. February 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 05:46:42PM +0100, Uli Luckas wrote:
> > That's racy. By the time the daemon notices that a process crashed, the
> > kernel might already have triggered suspend. userspace might then be
> > frozen before it can accuire the 'process restarting' lock.
> > I also wonder, if it is immanently racy to use userspcae communication
> > (client/daemon) for suspend locks. What if the daemon is already frozen
> > when a client sends a lock request request?
>
> The daemon holds the lock in the first place.
When did the daemon take the lock? When it anticipated the process would 
crash?

> There's no race. As for issues with the freezer, I think my position on that
> is fairly well known...
Not to me.

Uli

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