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Message-Id: <E1I6Mtu-000058-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:41:22 +0200
From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To: oliver@...kum.org
CC: miklos@...redi.hu, paulus@...ba.org, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
johannes@...solutions.net, rjw@...k.pl,
linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
pavel@....cz, mjg59@...f.ucam.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway
> > > > > I have discussed the benefits elsewhere. As for the deadlocks -- do
> > > > > you still observe them if you use the version of the freezer which
> > > > > doesn't freeze kernel threads?
> > > >
> > > > In general the only way to guarantee there are no deadlocks is to
> > > > construct the graph of dependencies between tasks. Those dependencies
> > > > are not in practice observable from outside the tasks, so it is
> > > > virtually impossible to construct the graph.
> > >
> > > In which way can user space tasks depend on each other in a way that
> > > allows a them members of that cycle to be in uninterruptible sleep?
> >
> > - process A calls rename() on a fuse fs
> > - process B, the fuse server, starts to process the rename request
> > - process B is frozen before it can reply
> >
> > Now process A is unfreezable. We cannot make rename() restartable,
> > hence it cannot be interruptible.
>
> Then this is a problem specific to fuse. You should teach fuse to block
> suspension while such operations are being performed.
And teach VFS to block suspension, while waiting on a mutex held by
another process performing a fuse operation.
I can already hear the beautiful praise from Al Viro at the sight of
that ;)
Miklos
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