linux-kernel - Re: swsusp initialized after SATA (was Re: swsusp APIC oopsen (was Re: swsusp ooms))

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Date:	Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:51:17 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	rjw@...k.pl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: swsusp initialized after SATA (was Re: swsusp APIC oopsen (was Re: swsusp ooms))

Hi!

> > > > Sorry, I meant:
> > > > 
> > > > "sata is initialized *after* swsusp => bad".
> > > 
> > > Which patch made this change, and why?
> > 
> > CONFIG_PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE is the setting responsible, and IIRC
> > that's Greg's code.
> > 
> > Now... what is the recommended way to wait for hard disks to become
> > online?
> 
> The multithreaded probing is breaking (or at least altering) the initcall
> ordering guarantees.  We should wait for all the probing kernel threads to
> terminate after processing each initcall level.  

Can I read that as 'problem is bigger than swsusp, so someone else
(not Pavel :-) will solve it'?
							Pavel
-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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