Re: [Jfs-discussion] Re: 2.5.27: Software Suspend failure / JFS errors

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 11:20:25 EST


On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:15:14AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 July 2002 10:06, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > As I read 'Software Suspend' in the subject I guess it's swsusp
> > fault. Swsusp needs magic flags for kernel threads which no one has
> > added to JFS yet.
>
> I understood the swsusp to be an unrelated issue. Is swsusp even
> available in a 2.4 kernel?

There is a 2.4 patch and it was merged in -ac for some period.

> I believe to fix the swsusp problem, the kernel threads need to test
> (current->flags & PF_FREEZE), and if set call
> refrigerator(PF_IOTHREAD).

I think so. (although I have to admit that I don't care for it)
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