Re: [RFC 5/5] pm: remove kernel thread freezing

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Oct 03 2017 - 16:12:12 EST


On Tue 2017-10-03 11:53:13, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Now that all filesystems which used to rely on kthread
> freezing have been converted to filesystem freeze/thawing
> we can remove the kernel kthread freezer.

Are you surely-sure? You mentioned other in kernel sources of writes;
what about those?

Can knfsd be a problem?

Can memory management doing background writes be a problem?

Did you do some hibernation testing?

> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>

Please don't apply this just yet.

Pavel

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