From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 14:07:13 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, bart.vanassche@wdc.com, ming.lei@redhat.com, tytso@mit.edu, darrick.wong@oracle.com, jikos@kernel.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, len.brown@intel.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, jgross@suse.com, todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com, nborisov@suse.com, jack@suse.cz, martin.petersen@oracle.com, ONeukum@suse.com, oleksandr@natalenko.name, oleg.b.antonyan@gmail.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 5/5] pm: remove kernel thread freezing Message-ID: <20171006120713.GG9497@amd> References: <20171003185313.1017-1-mcgrof@kernel.org> <20171003185313.1017-6-mcgrof@kernel.org> <20171003201204.GA23521@amd> <20171003204940.GA5659@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/i8j2F0k9BYX4qLc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171003204940.GA5659@wotan.suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --/i8j2F0k9BYX4qLc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue 2017-10-03 22:49:40, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 10:12:04PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Tue 2017-10-03 11:53:13, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > Now that all filesystems which used to rely on kthread > > > freezing have been converted to filesystem freeze/thawing > > > we can remove the kernel kthread freezer. > >=20 > > Are you surely-sure? You mentioned other in kernel sources of writes; > > what about those? >=20 > You perhaps did not read the cover letter, it describes this patch will v= ery > likely take time to *ever* apply. We must cover tons of grounds first, to > address precisely what you say. Yeah, I was not careful enough reading cover letter. Having series where 1-4/5 are ready to go, and 5/5 not-good-idea for years to come is quite confusing. Really relevant parts of cover letter should be moved to 5/5 and it should be clearly marked as "not for application". Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --/i8j2F0k9BYX4qLc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlnXcfEACgkQMOfwapXb+vLNWQCfeztojjeyGl/Ilk8j4RodDnvU wC4An0ClhXGuYA8yIiWg3oyNvdf11oOo =lg5+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/i8j2F0k9BYX4qLc--