linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes.

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Date:	Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:17:11 +1000
From:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...uxmail.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes.

Hi.

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 22:16 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, 23 October 2006 06:12, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > XFS can continue to submit I/O from a timer routine, even after
> > freezeable kernel and userspace threads are frozen. This doesn't seem to
> > be an issue for current swsusp code, but is definitely an issue for
> > Suspend2, where the pages being written could be overwritten by
> > Suspend2's atomic copy.
> >     
> > We can address this issue by freezing bdevs after stopping userspace
> > threads, and thawing them prior to thawing userspace.
> 
> Okay, it turns out we'll probably need this, so a couple of comments follow.

Ack. Revised version will come when I find/make the time to do it :)
Feel free to prod :>

Nigel

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