On Thu 2007-06-28 17:27:34, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

On Wednesday, 27 June 2007 22:49, Pavel Machek wrote:

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Hi!

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FWIW, I'm on record stating that "sync" is not sufficient to quiesce an XFS
filesystem for a suspend/resume to work safely and have argued that the only

Hmm, so XFS writes to disk even when its threads are frozen?

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safe thing to do is freeze the filesystem before suspend and thaw it after
resume. This is why I originally asked you to test that with the other problem

Could you add that to the XFS threads if it is really required? They
do know that they are being frozen for suspend.

Well, do you remember the workqueues?  They are still nonfreezable.

Oops, that would explain it :-(. Can we make XFS stop using them?
									Pavel
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