From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030738AbWKPIWV (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:22:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030753AbWKPIWU (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:22:20 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:58508 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030738AbWKPIWT (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:22:19 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH -mm 0/2] Use freezeable workqueues to avoid suspend-related XFS corruptions Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:12:49 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: LKML , Pavel Machek , Nigel Cunningham , David Chinner MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611160912.51226.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, The following two patches introduce a mechanism that should allow us to avoid suspend-related corruptions of XFS without the freezing of bdevs which Pavel considers as too invasive (apart from this, the freezing of bdevs may lead to some undesirable interactions with dm and for now it seems to be supported for real by XFS only). Greetings, Rafael -- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. R. Buckminster Fuller