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From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19 5/5] fs: freeze_bdev with semaphore not mutex
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:23:49 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061116232349.GI11034@melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611122343.06625.rjw@sisk.pl>

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:43:05PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:30, David Chinner wrote:
> > And how does freezing them at that point in time guarantee consistent
> > filesystem state?
> 
> If the work queues are frozen, there won't be any fs-related activity _after_
> we create the suspend image. 

fs-related activity before or after the suspend image is captured is
not a problem - it's fs-related activity _during_ the suspend that
is an issue here. If we have async I/O completing during the suspend
image capture, we've got problems....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-16 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-07 18:34 [PATCH 2.6.19 5/5] fs: freeze_bdev with semaphore not mutex Alasdair G Kergon
2006-11-07 20:18 ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2006-11-07 20:22   ` Eric Sandeen
2006-11-07 23:34   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-11-07 20:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-07 22:45   ` Eric Sandeen
2006-11-07 23:00     ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-08  9:54       ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-12  6:23       ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-01-12 10:16       ` Srinivasa Ds
2006-11-07 23:05     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-07 23:18       ` Eric Sandeen
2006-11-07 23:42         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-08  0:01           ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-11-08  8:27             ` David Chinner
2006-11-08 14:25               ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-11-08 14:43                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-08 15:25                   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-11-08 23:06                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-07 23:49       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-11-08  0:00         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-08  3:33           ` David Chinner
2006-11-08  2:30         ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-11-08 12:10           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-08 18:09             ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-09 15:52               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-09 16:00                 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-09 19:59                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-09 21:17                     ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-09 21:18                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-09 21:41                         ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-09 22:21                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-09 23:11                             ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-09 23:24                               ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-11-09 23:32                                 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-10 12:03                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-12 18:43                                     ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-12 21:53                                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-12 23:30                                       ` David Chinner
2006-11-13 16:11                                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-15 18:50                                         ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-15 19:56                                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-15 20:00                                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-15 20:23                                               ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-15 21:58                                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-15 22:49                                                   ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-16 23:20                                                   ` David Chinner
2006-11-16 23:38                                                     ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-13  7:35                                       ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-11-10  0:57                             ` David Chinner
2006-11-10 10:39                               ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-12 22:30                                 ` David Chinner
2006-11-12 22:43                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-13  5:43                                     ` David Chinner
2006-11-13 16:22                                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-14  0:10                                         ` David Chinner
2006-11-16 23:23                                     ` David Chinner [this message]
2006-11-16 23:40                                       ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-17  1:40                                         ` David Chinner
2006-11-17 15:13                                           ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-10  0:54                       ` David Chinner
2006-11-10 10:24                       ` Alan Cox
2006-11-10 10:36                         ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-10  0:33                   ` David Chinner
2006-11-10 10:38                     ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-08 20:48             ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-11-08 21:08               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-07 23:23   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-11-07 23:39   ` Ingo Molnar

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