Re: [PATCH 0/6] power: wire-up filesystem freeze/thaw with suspend/resume

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On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 04:40:33PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 04:14:07PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 02:32:45AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > The whole shebang can also be found at:
> > > https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/log/?h=work.freeze
> > > 
> > > I know nothing about power or hibernation. I've tested it as best as I
> > > could. Works for me (TM).
> > > 
> > > I need to catch some actual sleep now...
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > Now all the pieces are in place to actually allow the power subsystem to
> > > freeze/thaw filesystems during suspend/resume. Filesystems are only
> > > frozen and thawed if the power subsystem does actually own the freeze.
> > 
> > Urgh, I was relying on all kthreads to be freezable for live-patching:
> > 
> >   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250324134909.GA14718@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > So I understand the problem with freezing filesystems, but can't we
> > leave the TASK_FREEZABLE in the kthreads? The way I understand it, the
> 
> Yeah, we can.
> 
> > power subsystem will first freeze the filesystems before it goes freeze
> > threads anyway. So them remaining freezable should not affect anything,
> > right?
> 
> Yes. I've dropped the other patches. I've discussed this later
> downthread with Jan.

Thanks!




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