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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes.
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Hi.

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 22:16 +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, but is definitely an issue for
> > Suspend2, where the pages being written could be overwritten by
> > Suspend2's atomic copy.
> >
> > We can address this issue by freezing bdevs after stopping userspace
> > threads, and thawing them prior to thawing userspace.
>
> Okay, it turns out we'll probably need this, so a couple of comments follow.

Ack. Revised version will come when I find/make the time to do it :)
Feel free to prod :>

Nigel

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