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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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