Re: [linux-pm] better oopsing when frozen

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Fri Jul 29 2011 - 16:24:53 EST


Am Freitag, 29. Juli 2011, 21:54:30 schrieb Pavel Machek:
> On Mon 2011-07-25 10:43:19, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Hi Rafael,
> >
> > I had a problem with the kernel stopping the machine forever because I got an
> > oops while tasks were frozen. It seems to me that we should thaw when this
> > happens. How about this approach?
>
> Danger, Will Robinson. You must not write to the filesystems after
> hibernation started. By thawing, you may do just that.
>
> It should be safe to thaw as long as final suspend signature is not
> on disk and will not be written there.

Yes. But this applies only if I use kernel-space hibernation, doesn't it?
So I need a second flag for the signature being written. Any other problem?

Regards
Oliver
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