Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier: Implement todo list in task_struct

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > > > Introduce a todo notifier in the task_struct so that a task can be told to do
> > > > certain things. Abuse the suspend hooks try_to_freeze, freezing and refrigerator
> > > > to establish checkpoints where the todo list is processed. This will break software
> > > > suspend (next patch fixes and cleans up software suspend).
> > > 
> > > Ugh, this conflicts with stuff in -mm tree rather badly... In part
> > > thanks to patch by you that was already applied.
> > > 
> > > I fixed up rejects manually (but probably lost fix or two in
> > > progress), and will test.
> 
> Dont fix it up. Remove the ealier patch.

Oops. Do you happen to have patch relative to -mm or something? I'd
prefer not to mess it up second time...

> > > You are doing rather intrusive changes. Is testing them too much to
> > > ask? I'm pretty sure you can get i386 machine to test swsusp on...
> > 
> > (And yes, I did apply the whole series. It would be nice if next
> > series was relative to -mm, it already contains some of your changes).
> 
> mm contains the TIF_FREEZE changes that need to be undone. And yes I 
> tested it on a i386 with suspend to disk and it worked fine.

Sorry.
								Pavel
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