Re: [PATCH] Revert "xfs: clear PF_NOFREEZE for xfsaild kthread"

Jiri Kosina
2016-01-13T08:37:37Z

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Dave Chinner wrote:

> This reverts commit 24ba16bb3d499c49974669cd8429c3e4138ab102 as it
> prevents machines from suspending. This regression occurs when the
> xfsaild is idle on entry to suspend, and so there s no activity to
> wake it from it's idle sleep and hence see that it is supposed to
> freeze. Hence the freezer times out waiting for it and suspend is
> cancelled.
>
> There is no obvious fix for this short of freezing the filesystem
> properly, so revert this change for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

I hope I'll find time in the future and make some progress on making the
fs freezing happen during suspend properly. Unfortunately, before that
happens

Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina