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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Allow SysRq emergency sync to thaw frozen filesystems
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On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:49 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:06:17 -0600
> > Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> wrote:

> >> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/char/sysrq.c
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/char/sysrq.c
> >> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/sysrq.c
> >> @@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_reboot_
> >>
> >> static void sysrq_handle_sync(int key, struct tty_struct *tty)
> >> {
> >> + emergency_thaw();
> >> emergency_sync();
> >> }
> >
> > Kind of weird. The thaw will happen after/during the sync().
>
> oh, hrm. Maybe I didn't think enough about how it's handed off to
> pdflush; I could rearrange if that makes sense? Or maybe handing to
> pdflush is wrong, it was just so convenient....

I don't understand the reason for handing it to pdflush. I would expect
thaw to be very fast. Do we expect it to block anywhere, and if so, for
very long? Not that I see any problem with it.

Shaggy
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center



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