Hi!
> > > > The whole memory shrinking we do for hibernation is now done by
> > > > allocating
> > > > memory, so the freezer is not necessary for *that* and there's *zero*
> > > > difference between suspend and hibernation with respect to why the
> > > > freezer is
> > > > used.
> > >
> > > Funny. Freezer was put there so that hibernation image was safe to
> > > write out. You need disk subsystems in workable state for hibernation.
> >
> > I'm not really sure what you're talking about. Why do you think the
> > freezer is
> > necessary for that?
Well, from freezer you need:
1) user process frozen.
2) essential locks _not_ held so that block devices are still functional.
> > > mmap... what is problem with mmap? For suspend, memory is powered, so
> > > you can permit people changing it.
> >
> > Suppose mmap is used to make the registers of some device available to user
> > space. Yes, that can happen.
"Don't do it, then". Yes, can happen, but hopefully is not too common
these days. [And... freezer doing 1) but not 2) would be enough to
handle that. Freezer doing 1) but not 2) would also be simpler...]
> > Again, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Once the image has been
> > created, it can be saved while user space is running just fine.
>
> Of course, we don't want random changes to be made to persistent storage after
> the image has been created, because those changes might not be consistent with
> the memory contents stored in the image, and that's why user space is still
> frozen when we're saving the image.
Yes. That's the reason 1) for freezer.
Pavel
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