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Message-ID: <20100304135337.GC12191@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:53:37 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>,
linux-pm <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Is it supposed to be ok to call del_gendisk while
userspace is frozen?
Hi!
> > journalling assumptions broken: commit block is there, but previous
> > blocks are not intact. Data loss.
> >
> > ...and that was the first I could think about. Lets not do
> > this. Barriers were invented for a reason.
>
> Very well. Then we still need a solution to the original problem:
> Devices sometimes need to be unregistered during resume, but
> del_gendisk() blocks on the writeback thread, which is frozen until
> after the resume finishes. How do you suggest this be fixed?
Avoid unregistering device during resume. Instead, return errors until
resume is done and you can call del_gendisk?
Pavel
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