Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM / Freezer: Freeze filesystems along with freezing processes (was: Re: PM / hibernate xfs lock up / xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag)

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Wednesday, August 03, 2011, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > The additional benefit of this change is that, if something goes
> > wrong after filesystems have been frozen, they will stay in a
> > consistent state and journal replays won't be necessary (e.g. after
> > a failing suspend or resume).  In particular, this should help to
> > solve a long-standing issue that in some cases during resume from
> > hibernation the boot loader causes the journal to be replied for the
> > filesystem containing the kernel image and initrd causing it to
> > become inconsistent with the information stored in the hibernation
> > image.
> 
> > +/**
> > + * freeze_filesystems - Force all filesystems into a consistent state.
> > + */
> > +void freeze_filesystems(void)
> > +{
> > +	struct super_block *sb;
> > +
> > +	lockdep_off();
> 
> Ouch. So... why do we need to silence this?

So that it doesn't complain? :-)

I'll need some time to get the exact details here.

> > +	/*
> > +	 * Freeze in reverse order so filesystems dependant upon others are
> > +	 * frozen in the right order (eg. loopback on ext3).
> > +	 */
> > +	list_for_each_entry_reverse(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
> > +		if (!sb->s_root || !sb->s_bdev ||
> > +		    (sb->s_frozen == SB_FREEZE_TRANS) ||
> > +		    (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) ||
> > +		    (sb->s_flags & MS_FROZEN))
> > +			continue;
> 
> Should we stop NFS from modifying remote server, too?

What do you mean exactly?

> Plus... ext3 writes to read-only filesystems on mount; not sure if it
> does it later. But RDONLY means 'user cant write to it' not 'bdev will
> not be modified'. Should we freeze all?
> 
> How can 'already frozen' happen?
> 
> > +	list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list)
> > +		if (sb->s_flags & MS_FROZEN) {
> > +			sb->s_flags &= ~MS_FROZEN;
> > +			thaw_bdev(sb->s_bdev, sb);
> > +		}
> 
> ...because we'll unfreeze it even if we did not freeze it...

So we need not check MS_FROZEN in freeze_filesystems().  OK

Thanks,
Rafael

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