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From: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph <cr2005@u-club.de>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Linux PM mailing list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: PM / hibernate xfs lock up / xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:22:47 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E300317.7090108@tuxonice.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110727103308.GA20805@infradead.org>

Hi.

On 27/07/11 20:33, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:35:13AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> The Pavel's objection, if I remember it correctly, was that some
>> (or the majority of?) filesystems didn't implement the freezing operation,
>> so they would be more vulnerable to data loss in case of a failing hibernation
>> after this change.  However, that's better than actively causing pain to XFS
>> users.
> 
> The objection never made sense and only means he never read the code.
> freeze_super (or freeze_bdev back then) always does a sync_filesystem
> before even checking if we have a freeze method, and sync_filesystem is
> what we iterate over for each superblock in sync().

I've had freezing supers in TOI for a couple of years now and it has
only ever helped. To be honest, if you have a ton of dirty pages, it
does result in a big delay, but that's the worst of it.

Regards,

Nigel
-- 
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events occur with alarming frequency, order arises from chaos, and
no one is given credit.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-27 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-12 16:05 PM / hibernate xfs lock up / xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag Christoph
2011-07-13  0:03 ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-26 20:28   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-07-27  0:45     ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-27  9:35       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-07-27 10:33         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-27 12:22           ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2011-08-03 21:15             ` [RFC][PATCH] PM / Freezer: Freeze filesystems along with freezing processes (was: Re: PM / hibernate xfs lock up / xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag) Rafael J. Wysocki
     [not found]               ` <20110803172922.GA2126@ucw.cz>
2011-08-04  9:27                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-08-04 22:25                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-08-06 21:17                     ` [PATCH] PM / Freezer: Freeze filesystems while freezing processes (v2) Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-08-07  0:14                       ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-08 21:11                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-08-14  0:16                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-09-24 22:56                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-09-25  5:32                           ` Nigel Cunningham
2011-09-25 13:37                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-09-25 10:38                           ` Christoph
2011-09-25 13:32                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-09-25 21:57                               ` Christoph
2011-09-25 22:10                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-09-26  5:27                                   ` Christoph
2011-10-22 15:14                                   ` Christoph
2011-10-22 21:35                                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-11-16 13:49                                       ` Ferenc Wagner
2011-11-16 21:50                                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-09-25 13:40                           ` [Update][PATCH] PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-08-10 21:43         ` PM / hibernate xfs lock up / xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag Pavel Machek
2011-08-16 12:38           ` Christoph
2011-08-16 18:05             ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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