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| author |   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-02-02 11:24:44 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-02-02 11:24:44 -0800 |
| commit | bd1d462e13b278fc57752d0b9b15040e60e561a0 (patch) | |
| tree | e2fdf1c18a93aab02830bcb8a5db8cdddfbb63a8 /Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt | |
| parent | sysfs: Update the name hash when renaming sysfs entries (diff) | |
| parent | Linux 3.3-rc2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-bd1d462e13b278fc57752d0b9b15040e60e561a0.tar.xz linux-dev-bd1d462e13b278fc57752d0b9b15040e60e561a0.zip | |
Merge 3.3-rc2 into the driver-core-next branch.
This was done to resolve a merge and build problem with the
drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c file.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt index 6ccb68f68da6..ebd7490ef1df 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt @@ -120,10 +120,10 @@ So in practice, the 'at all' may become a 'why freeze kernel threads?' and freezing user threads I don't find really objectionable." Still, there are kernel threads that may want to be freezable. For example, if -a kernel that belongs to a device driver accesses the device directly, it in -principle needs to know when the device is suspended, so that it doesn't try to -access it at that time. However, if the kernel thread is freezable, it will be -frozen before the driver's .suspend() callback is executed and it will be +a kernel thread that belongs to a device driver accesses the device directly, it +in principle needs to know when the device is suspended, so that it doesn't try +to access it at that time. However, if the kernel thread is freezable, it will +be frozen before the driver's .suspend() callback is executed and it will be thawed after the driver's .resume() callback has run, so it won't be accessing the device while it's suspended. |