On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 06:16:27PM -0700, Li Li wrote:
> From: Li Li <dua...@google.com>
> 
> To improve the user experience when switching between recently used
> applications, the background applications which are not currently needed
> are cached in the memory. Normally, a well designed application will not
> consume valuable CPU resources in the background. However, it's possible
> some applications are not able or willing to behave as expected, wasting
> energy even after being cached.
> 
> It is a good idea to freeze those applications when they're only being
> kept alive for the sake of faster startup and energy saving. These kernel
> patches will provide the necessary infrastructure for user space framework
> to freeze and thaw a cached process, check the current freezing status and
> correctly deal with outstanding binder transactions to frozen processes.
> 
> Changes in v2: avoid panic by using pr_warn for unexpected cases.
> Changes in v3: improved errcode logic in binder_proc_transaction().
> 
> Marco Ballesio (3):
>   binder: BINDER_FREEZE ioctl
>   binder: use EINTR for interrupted wait for work
>   binder: BINDER_GET_FROZEN_INFO ioctl
> 
>  drivers/android/binder.c            | 198 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/android/binder_internal.h   |  18 +++
>  include/uapi/linux/android/binder.h |  20 +++
>  3 files changed, 224 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

[+Cc Jann]

Christian
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list
de...@linuxdriverproject.org
http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel

Reply via email to