From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
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 12:02:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002101202.54557.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002101158.22606.rjw@sisk.pl>
Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 11:58:22 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> 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?
Yes.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-10 11:02 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
2010-02-10 11:02 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
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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