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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: device model documentation 2/3
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 04:49:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-102338823505348@msgid-missing> (raw)

Hi!

> > > SUSPEND_DISABLE tells the device to stop I/O transactions. When it
> > > stops transactions, or what it should do with unfinished transactions
> > > is a policy of the driver. After this call, the driver should not
> > > accept any other I/O requests.
> > 
> > Does this mean that memory allocations in the suspend/resume
> > implementations must be made with GFP_NOIO respectively
> > GFP_ATOMIC ?
> > It would seem so.
> 
> Why would you allocate memory on a resume transition? 
> 
> As for suspending, this is something that has been discussed a few times 
> before. No definitive decision has come out of it because it hasn't been 
> implemented yet. It hasn't been implemented yet because the infrastructure 
> isn't complete. It's real close, but still not quite there. 

swsusp works for me (tm). SO structure should be there ;-)

> Nonetheless, you have to do one of a couple things: use GFP_NOIO or
> special case the swap device(s) so they don't stop I/O when everything
> else does. (Of course, you have to eventually stop it)

Special casing swap is not enough -- you can well have memory full of data
for regular filesystem.

								Pavel

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             reply	other threads:[~2002-06-02  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-02  4:49 Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-06-05 12:41 ` device model documentation 2/3 Oliver Neukum
2002-06-05 12:51 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-06-05 19:04 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-06-05 19:11 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-06-05 21:52 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-06-05 21:54 ` Oliver Neukum

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