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author | Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> | 2012-02-08 00:04:15 +0100 |
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committer | Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> | 2012-02-08 00:05:20 +0100 |
commit | a5f17d1f4c2831b9b9bf8b1a537cdbac995d6e13 (patch) | |
tree | cce7eab28de00a88d75b8eda704f5838e10947b1 /Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt | |
parent | Merge branch 'amba' into for-armsoc (diff) | |
parent | Linux 3.3-rc2 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'v3.3-rc2' into depends/rmk/for-armsoc
There were conflicts between fixes going in after 3.3-rc1 and
Russell's stable arm-soc base branch. Resolving it in the dependency
branch so that each topic branch shares the same resolution.
Conflicts:
arch/arm/mach-at91/at91cap9.c
arch/arm/mach-at91/at91sam9g45.c
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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. |