Nigel Cunningham writes: > (Finally catching up on emails since Saturday!)
Yes, I know what you mean; I was occupied with other work stuff on Friday and not well on Saturday, and by that stage there was a backlog of about 500 emails for me to wade through... :/ > The freezer is also essential for doing a full image of memory - you > have to be able to guarantee that some of the image won't change in > order to be able to write it out before the atomic copy. Of course the > freezer alone isn't enough, but it solves 95% of the issue. Sure. As I pointed out in another email, it's unrealistic to expect the freezer to be able to stop everything in a state where any arbitrary mutex is free. But as long as you don't need to do anything that depends on getting a mutex while the system is frozen, there should be no problem. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
