[linux-pm] Freezer: Don't count threads waiting for frozen filesystems.
Rafael J. Wysocki
rjw at sisk.pl
Tue Oct 28 15:00:30 PDT 2008
On Tuesday, 28 of October 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > > However it does not fix the freezing of tasks which are waiting for
> > > VFS locks (i.e. inode->i_mutex) held by the outstanding fuse requests.
> > > This is the tricky part...
> >
> > Convert them all to wait_event_freezeable.
>
> You mean convert mutexes to event queues? Not a very good idea.
>
> I fear we are going down the same path as the last time. I still
> don't think rewriting the VFS is the right solution to the freezing
> problem. But hey, if you want, sumbit a patch or an RFD and lets see
> what others think.
So, what solution would you prefer?
Rafael
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