Re: Suspend not working with SATA:

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>]

Hi.

Set PF_IOTHREAD on the task's flags instead. That will allow it to run
during suspending.

Regards,

Nigel

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 04:18, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Witold Krecicki wrote:
> > Stopping tasks: 
> > ==================================================================
> >  stopping tasks failed (2 tasks remaining)
> > Restarting tasks...<6> Strange, katad-1 not stopped
> >  Strange, katad-2 not stopped
> >  done
> 
> 
> Both Pavel Machek and I posted test patches to address this... 
> basically, because of the design of swsusp, you must copy-n-paste the 
> following code into every single kernel thread:
> 
>                          if (current->flags & PF_FREEZE)
>                                  refrigerator(PF_IOTHREAD);
> 
> But I consider suspend untested at best... for reboot and suspend the 
> driver should issue flush-cache and other things beyond simply freezing 
> the kernel thread.  Further, suspending will suck if the kernel thread 
> itself is the one doing I/O on behalf of the driver.  This occurs if the 
> transfer mode is PIO rather than DMA.
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
> 
> 
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