Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

Oliver Neukum
2007-07-03T06:14:09Z

Am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007 schrieb Matthew Garrett:
> Suspend to RAM on a machine with / on a fuse filesystem turns out to be
> a screaming nightmare - either the suspend fails because syslog (for
> instance) can't be frozen, or the machine deadlocks for some other
> reason I haven't tracked down. We could "fix" fuse, or alternatively we
> could do what we do for suspend to RAM on other platforms (PPC and APM)
> and just not use the freezer.

Only if you want to audit all character devices' read() and write()
methods for races against suspend().
/ on fuse is a bad idea.

Regards
Oliver