Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] PM: Do not sync filesystems from within the freezer | Date | Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:02:53 +0200 |
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On Friday, 6 July 2007 00:00, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> > > > > The syncing of filesystems from within the freezer is generally not needed. > > Change freeze_processes() so that it doesn't execute sys_sync() and make the > > suspend and hibernation code path sync filesystems independently of the freezer. > > Yes, we can do that, but ... why?
I think that sync and the freezer are different things and shouldn't be mixed in such a way as they are now.
> Does it actually fix FUSE?
It should prevent the freezer from deadlocking.
> Miklos claims sync is nop on FUSE...?
In that case there shouldn't be any deadlock, but a freezer failure. :-)
Greetings, Rafael
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