Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes.

[Oleg Verych]

On 2006-10-24, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:44, David Chinner wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 12:36:53PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> > On Monday, 23 October 2006 06:12, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
>> > > XFS can continue to submit I/O from a timer routine, even after
>> > > freezeable kernel and userspace threads are frozen. This doesn't seem to
>> > > be an issue for current swsusp code,
>> > 
>> > So it doesn't look like we need the patch _now_.
>> > 
>> > > but is definitely an issue for Suspend2, where the pages being written could
>> > > be overwritten by Suspend2's atomic copy.
>> > 
>> > And IMO that's a good reason why we shouldn't use RCU pages for storing the
>> > image.  XFS is one known example that breaks things if we do so and
>> > there may be more such things that we don't know of.  The fact that they
>> > haven't appeared in testing so far doesn't mean they don't exist and
>> > moreover some things like that may appear in the future.
>> 
>> Could you please tell us which XFS bits are broken so we can get
>> them fixed?  The XFS daemons should all be checking if they are
>> supposed to freeze (i.e. they call try_to_freeze() after they wake
>> up due to timer expiry) so I thought they were doing the right
>> thing.
>> 
>> However, I have to say that I agree with freezing the filesystems
>> before suspend - at least XFS will be in a consistent state that can
>> be recovered from without corruption if your machine fails to
>> resume....
>
> Do you mean calling sys_sync() after the userspace has been frozen
> may not be sufficient?

Please see
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317479;msg=105;att=0>

it's bottom of
<http://bugs.debian.org/317479>

IMHO it's may be helpful.

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