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From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
To: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>
Cc: "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	"jthumshirn@suse.de" <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
	"linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
	"hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>,
	"martin.petersen@oracle.com" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	"axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"oleksandr@natalenko.name" <oleksandr@natalenko.name>,
	"hare@suse.com" <hare@suse.com>,
	"shli@kernel.org" <shli@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] md: Make md resync and reshape threads freezable
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:02:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170926150250.GD31449@ming.t460p> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1506436834.3787.22.camel@wdc.com>

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 02:40:36PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 16:13 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > I am pretty sure that suspend/resume can survive when resync in progress
> > with my patchset applied on RAID1, without any MD change.
> 
> The above shows that you do not understand how suspend and resume works.
> In the documents in the directory Documentation/power it is explained clearly
> that I/O must be stopped before the hibernation image is generation to avoid

No, I don't use hibernation, and just use suspend/resume(s2r).

> hard to repair filesystem corruption. Although md is not a filesystem I think
> this also applies to md since md keeps some state information in RAM and some
> state information on disk. It is essential that all that state information is
> in consistent.
> 
> > If your patchset depends on this MD change, something should be wrong
> > in the following patches. Now I need to take a close look.
> 
> The later patches that make SCSI quiesce and resume safe do not depend on
> this change.

Are you sure?

If I remove the 1st patch, system suspend/resume will hang with all your
other 6 patchset.


-- 
Ming

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-26 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170925202924.16603-1-bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
2017-09-25 20:29 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] md: Make md resync and reshape threads freezable Bart Van Assche
2017-09-25 23:04   ` Ming Lei
2017-09-25 23:09     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-09-26  4:01       ` Ming Lei
2017-09-26  8:13         ` Ming Lei
2017-09-26 14:40           ` Bart Van Assche
2017-09-26 15:02             ` Ming Lei [this message]
2017-09-26  6:06   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-09-26 11:17   ` Ming Lei
2017-09-26 14:42     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-09-26 14:59       ` Ming Lei
2017-09-27  3:12         ` Bart Van Assche
2017-09-27 11:00           ` Ming Lei
2017-10-02 15:39             ` Bart Van Assche
2017-10-02 13:26   ` Christoph Hellwig

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