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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au>,
	"Leisner, Martin" <Martin.Leisner@xerox.com>
Subject: Re: syncing the disks when entering sleep
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:58:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002101158.22606.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002101138.47072.oliver@neukum.org>

On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 11:34:23 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> > Actually, doing the sync() in the kernel is a hack that we decided not to
> > remove just because the users space didin't do the right thing on some systems.
> > If the user space always synced disks before suspending, we wouldn't have to
> > do that in the kernel.
> 
> If you sync in user space will you not have an inevitable race condition?

Do you mean the race with applications that write to disks while the sustem is
suspending?

Rafael

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-10 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-22 15:59 syncing the disks when entering sleep Leisner, Martin
2010-01-22 20:49 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-22 21:31   ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-01-22 21:33     ` Leisner, Martin
2010-01-22 21:38       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-22 21:40         ` Leisner, Martin
2010-01-22 21:55           ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-01-22 22:06             ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-01-22 21:35     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-26 13:59   ` Pavel Machek
2010-01-26 18:17     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-26 14:51       ` Pavel Machek
2010-01-27  0:51         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-27  6:45           ` Pavel Machek
2010-01-27  7:29             ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-01-27 20:50             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-28  7:26               ` Pavel Machek
2010-01-28 10:43                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-05  6:38                   ` document open(/dev/snapshot) sideeffects -- was " Pavel Machek
     [not found]                   ` <20100405063852.GA1924@elf.ucw.cz>
2010-04-23 18:28                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
     [not found]                     ` <201004232028.56005.rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-04-24  5:42                       ` Pavel Machek
2010-01-27  9:55           ` Pavel Machek
2010-01-27 20:46             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-31  8:52               ` Pavel Machek
2010-01-31 12:33                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-01 10:49                   ` Pavel Machek
2010-02-01 17:13                     ` Leisner, Martin
2010-02-01 21:09                       ` Pavel Machek
2010-02-02  4:13                         ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-02-10  8:13                           ` Pavel Machek
2010-02-10 10:34                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-10 10:38                               ` Oliver Neukum
2010-02-10 10:58                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2010-02-10 11:02                                   ` Oliver Neukum
2010-02-10 18:42                                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-15 20:28                                       ` Matthew Garrett
2010-02-16  6:38                                       ` Pavel Machek
2010-02-10 13:31                               ` Pavel Machek
2010-02-10 19:19                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-10 21:17                                   ` Leisner, Martin
2010-02-11 14:49                                     ` Pavel Machek
2010-02-11 15:00                                   ` Pavel Machek
2010-02-11 17:28                                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-11 20:17                                       ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-02-10 20:58                               ` Leisner, Martin
2010-02-01 20:55                     ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-02-01 21:07                       ` Pavel Machek
2010-02-01 22:03                         ` Nigel Cunningham

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