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Message-ID: <20070703160526.GA24334@srcf.ucam.org> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 17:05:26 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> To: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:03:33PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Suspend to RAM on a machine with / on a fuse filesystem turns out to be > > a screaming nightmare - either the suspend fails because syslog (for > > instance) can't be frozen, or the machine deadlocks for some other > > reason I haven't tracked down. We could "fix" fuse, or alternatively we > > could do what we do for suspend to RAM on other platforms (PPC and APM) > > and just not use the freezer. > > Quite apart from the sync() matter, _any_ synchronous call to a FUSE > filesystem during STR will cause trouble. Even if the user task > implementing the filesystem isn't frozen, when it tries to carry out > some I/O to a suspended device it will either: > > block until the system wakes up, or For the suspend to RAM case, that sounds absolutely fine. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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