linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] libata, freezer: avoid block device removal while system is frozen

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Date:	Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:12:07 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...elcunningham.com.au>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, tomaz.solc@...lix.org,
	aaron.lu@...el.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata, freezer: avoid block device removal while system
 is frozen

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>
>> All pending I/O should have been flushed when suspend/hibernate
>> started, and there's no point in trying to update metadata on a
>
> Frozen or not, it isn't guaranteed that bdi wb queue is empty when the
> system went to suspend.  They're likely to be empty but there's no
> guarantee.  Conversion to workqueue only makes the behavior more
> deterministic.

Looks we should guarantee that I/O queue is emptied before system sleep,
otherwise it may be a bug, since battery may be drained up to cause
data loss or block devices may be disconnected during sleep.

Thanks,
-- 
Ming Lei
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