linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] PM: Do not sync filesystems from within the freezer

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Message-Id: <E1I6jlB-0003TC-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:05:53 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, nigel@...pend2.net, rjw@...k.pl, pavel@....cz,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mjg59@...f.ucam.org, oliver@...kum.org, paulus@...ba.org,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] PM: Do not sync filesystems from within the
	freezer

> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 09:13 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > 
> > Another myth, that has been debunked already.  The problem is: how do
> > you define fuse processes?  There's no theoretical or even practial
> > way to do that.
> 
> It could if they told the kernel via some black magic ...
> 
> But that still suck. The freezer sucks :-)

Yeah, and it wouldn't work in practice, since the auxilary tasks might
be part of a library which is not even aware of being used by a "fuse
task".

Miklos
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