linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/11] fs: use freeze

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Message-ID: <CADjb_WRG8hxJB3zY5_XnZqeQbCy3jYW5xJaS63_7FGztZymLzg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 1 Dec 2017 00:36:46 +0800
From:   Yu Chen <yu.chen.surf@...il.com>
To:     "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, bart.vanassche@....com,
        ming.lei@...hat.com, tytso@....edu, darrick.wong@...cle.com,
        jikos@...nel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com,
        jgross@...e.com, todd.e.brandt@...ux.intel.com, nborisov@...e.com,
        jack@...e.cz, martin.petersen@...cle.com, ONeukum@...e.com,
        oleksandr@...alenko.name, oleg.b.antonyan@...il.com,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] fs: use freeze_fs on suspend/hibernate

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...nel.org> wrote:
> This is a followup from the original RFC which proposed to start
> to kill kthread freezing all together [0]. Instead of going straight
> out to the jugular for kthread freezing this series only addresses
> killing freezer calls on filesystems which implement freeze_fs, after
> we let the kernel freeze these filesystems for us on suspend.
>
>
>   o xfs
>   o reiserfs
>   o nilfs2
>   o jfs
>   o f2fs
>   o ext4
>   o ext2
>   o btrfs
>

Thanks for your work on this!  I'll test xfs part first.
BTW, is nfs able to be included in this set? I also encountered a
freeze() failure
due to nfs access during that stage recently.
-- 
Thanks,
Yu