[PATCH] swsusp: freeze user space processes first

Allow swsusp to freeze processes successfully under heavy load by freezing
userspace processes before kernel threads.

[Thanks to Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> for suggesting the
way to go.]

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/power/user.c b/kernel/power/user.c
index 8cabc405ca10..a97406b86ef3 100644
--- a/kernel/power/user.c
+++ b/kernel/power/user.c
@@ -138,7 +138,6 @@ static int snapshot_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
         case SNAPSHOT_FREEZE:
                 if (data->frozen)
                         break;
-                sys_sync();
                 down(&pm_sem);
                 pm_prepare_console();
                 disable_nonboot_cpus();