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PM / Documentation: Fix minor issue in freezing_of_tasks.txt

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In a paragraph, "kernel thread" is mistakenly written as "kernel". Fix this by
adding thread after word "kernel".

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Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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Viresh Kumar 2012-01-19 23:22:49 +01:00 committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
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@ -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.