RE: [PATCH V4] suspend: enable freeze timeout configuration through sys

Alan Stern
2013-02-04T03:15:56Z

On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Li, Fei wrote:

> > -> the situation described above shouldn't happen and if it does, then there
> > is a bug that needs to be fixed.
>
> Yes, we agree with that it's a bug that needs to be fixed, and we are already done
> for some cases.
> During the process, we realize that tuning the timeout value to smaller value will help
> to expose freezing failure for some cases.

Besides, the underlying bug is well known (fuse filesystems hanging
because the fuse daemon gets frozen before the process doing file I/O,
or something like that) and so far nobody has a good idea of how to
fix it.

Alan Stern