Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] Freezer: Don't count threads waiting for frozen filesystems. | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:41:38 +1100 |
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Hi.
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 00:24 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Remember, though, that we're only freezing fuse at the moment, and > > strictly one filesystem at a time. We can thus happily wait for the > > i_mutex taken by some other process to be released. > > Not going to work: you need to wait for all requests to be finished, > but those might depend on some other fuse filesystem which has already > been frozen.
Okay. In that case, am I right in thinking that the request waiting on the frozen filesystem will be stuck in request_wait_answer, and the userspace process that was trying to satisfy the request will be stuck in the FUSE_MIGHT_FREEZE call that was invoked for the frozen filesystem?
Regards,
Nigel
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