Hi.

On Tuesday 11 September 2007 21:04:22 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 11 September 2007 05:54, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > Commit 831441862956fffa17b9801db37e6ea1650b0f69 (Freezer: make kernel 
threads
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> > nonfreezable by default) breaks freezing when attempting to resume from an
> > initrd, because the init (which is freezeable) spins while waiting for 
another
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> > thread to run /linuxrc, but doesn't check whether it has been told to 
enter
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> > the refrigerator.
> 
> Hm.
> 
> I use a resume from an initrd on a regular basis and it works without the 
patch
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> below.
> 
> I think we need to investigate what happens in your test case a bit.

Ah. That makes me realise that I see that too - my AMD64 uniprocessor laptop 
didn't need the patch (guess that's why I didn't notice the need and ack'd 
the patch). But my x86 SMP machine... it needs this. I'll see if they're 
running on different processors.

Regards,

Nigel
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