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Message-Id: <200709112301.52724.nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:01:51 +1000
From: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc: nigel@...pend2.net, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix failure to resume from initrds.
Hi again.
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 21:55:06 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 September 2007 13:27, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Tuesday 11 September 2007 21:04:22 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, 11 September 2007 05:54, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > > > Hi all.
> > > >
> > > > Commit 831441862956fffa17b9801db37e6ea1650b0f69 (Freezer: make kernel
> > threads
> > > > nonfreezable by default) breaks freezing when attempting to resume
from an
> > > > initrd, because the init (which is freezeable) spins while waiting for
> > another
> > > > thread to run /linuxrc, but doesn't check whether it has been told to
> > enter
> > > > the refrigerator.
> > >
> > > Hm.
> > >
> > > I use a resume from an initrd on a regular basis and it works without
the
> > patch
> > > below.
> > >
> > > I think we need to investigate what happens in your test case a bit.
> >
> > Ah. That makes me realise that I see that too - my AMD64 uniprocessor
laptop
> > didn't need the patch (guess that's why I didn't notice the need and ack'd
> > the patch). But my x86 SMP machine... it needs this. I'll see if they're
> > running on different processors.
>
> Well, strange. My x86_64 SMP machines don't need the patch too.
Oh well. I'm probably doing something wrong then and haven't clicked yet.
Regards,
Nigel
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