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SubjectRe: Suspend 2 merge: 16/51: Disable cache reaping during suspend.
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Hi.

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 05:18, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> > I have to admit to being a little unsure as to why this is needed, but
> > suspend's reliability is helped a lot by disabling cache reaping while
> > suspending. Perhaps one of the mm guys will be able to enlighten me
> > here. Might be SMP related.
>
> It would be good to understand it. Rather than slowing common code... why
> not down(&cache_chain_sem) in suspend2?

Didn't consider it, to be honest.

That said, if/when we start to use cpu hotplug for SMP, we'll deadlock
in cpuup_callback if we've got the sem.

> > {
> > struct list_head *walk;
> >
> > - if (down_trylock(&cache_chain_sem)) {
> > + if ((unlikely(test_suspend_state(SUSPEND_RUNNING))) ||
> > + (down_trylock(&cache_chain_sem)))
> > + {
> > /* Give up. Setup the next iteration. */
> > schedule_delayed_work(&__get_cpu_var(reap_work), REAPTIMEOUT_CPUC + smp_processor_id());
> > return;
> >
> >
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