Re: [PATCH 0/3] PM, vfs: use filesystem freezing instead of kthread freezer

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > I would say instead "no I/O is allowed from now on".  Maybe that's an 
> > overstatement, but I think it comes closer to the truth.

But that's what PM callbacks are for.

> Exactly. And I'm pretty sure hardware drivers do use kernel threads,
> and do I/O from them.
> 
> LEDs are just one example

And why is that relevant? First, I don't see any freezable kthread in leds 
class implementation whatsoever. Second, I am pretty sure that it's quite 
unlikely to participate in filesystem I/O.

Sure, you need to suspend and resume the devices when going through 
suspend. That's why led_suspend() exists. How would try_to_freeze() help 
at all? That's basically just a fancy schedule() called at certain points.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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