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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:31:18 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: nigel@...pend2.net
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Handle uninterruptible tasks
Hi!
> > I don't think we can do that. I suspect rename looks like:
> >
> > write directory entry in source
> > A) (uninterruptible wait for write)
> > write directory entry in destination
> > (uninterruptible wait for write)
> > write something else
> >
> > If we freeze some task in place "A)", we'll write to the disk when the
> > directory write is finished :-(.
>
> Renaming is a single syscall, so won't the process get frozen when the syscall
> finishes?
It would be frozen when syscall finishes. But if we freeze it at A)
point, we have a problem.
> Perhaps you've just found more logic for keeping the sys_sync there?
No, I don't think so.
Pavel
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