Re: [PATCH] PM / Freezer: Freeze filesystems while freezing processes (v2)

Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-11-16T22:15:56Z

On Wednesday, November 16, 2011, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> writes:
>
> > On Saturday, October 22, 2011, Christoph wrote:
> >
> >>> PM / Freezer: Freeze filesystems while freezing processes (v2)
> >>>
> >>> On Sunday, August 07, 2011, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 11:17:18PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Freeze all filesystems during the freezing of tasks by calling
> >>>>> freeze_bdev() for each of them and thaw them during the thawing of
> >>>>> tasks with the help of thaw_bdev().
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This is needed by hibernation, because some filesystems (e.g. XFS)
> >>>>> deadlock with the preallocation of memory used by it if the memory
> >>>>> pressure caused by it is too heavy.
> >>>
> >>> Below is an alternative fix, the changelog pretty much explains the
> >>> idea.
> >>>
> >>> I've tested it on Toshiba Portege R500, but I don't have an XFS
> >>> partition to verify that it really helps, so I'd appreciate it if
> >>> someone able to reproduce the original issue could test it and report
> >>> back.
> >>
> >> Well, the kernel bugtracker is still down and I just like to post my
> >> experience with kernel (x64) v3.1-rc8/9 + patches. My machine is a
> >> MacBookPro, doomed with 4GB RAM running debian.
> >>
> >> Bug #1
> >>
> >> on the way to hibernate, machine hangs on
> >>
> >> "PM: Preallocating image memory..."
> >>
> >> this patch worked for me now for weeks:
> >> "[PATCH] PM / Freezer: Freeze filesystems while freezing processes (v2)"
> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/24/77
> >
> > This patch is going to be merged into 3.2.
>
> Hi,
>
> I was the original reporter of the Bugzilla issue, just didn't know
> about this thread until recently. Anyway, I'm running 3.2-rc1 now,
> which contains the alternative fix, and I can confirm that it indeed
> works: hibernation does not deadlock on my XFS rooted system anymore
> during memory preallocation. Thanks everybody for his or her work on
> the issue!
>
> To add something still, preallocation now ends with a couple of seconds
> of heavy disk activity, but with several seconds of total inactivity
> beforehand. Is this warranted by some CPU intensive task at that stage?

Quilte frankly, I have no idea.

Thanks,