freezer: document relationship with memory shrinking
authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:04:43 +0000 (03:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:37:18 +0000 (14:37 -0700)
commit2776365370b579afc36cff14dc70a567b66f0378
treebc53d79f7c9ef062f2de7e836f44885ac243de35
parentb3dac3b304bdfbb06e92b0d4bba9ecab006795e6
freezer: document relationship with memory shrinking

One important reason to freeze tasks, which is that we don't want them to
allocate memory after freeing it for the hibernation image, has not been
documented.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt