On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 07:04 +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 01:29:18PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > Some people use the md driver on laptops and use the suspend and > > resume functionality. Since it is essential that submitting of > > new I/O requests stops before device quiescing starts, make the > > md resync and reshape threads freezable. > > As I explained, if SCSI quiesce is safe, this patch shouldn't > be needed. > > The issue isn't MD specific, and in theory can be triggered > on all devices. And you can see the I/O hang report on BTRFS(RAID) > without MD involved: > > https://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=150634883816965&w=2 What makes you think that this patch is not necessary once SCSI quiesce has been made safe? Does this mean that you have not tested suspend and resume while md RAID 1 resync was in progress? This patch is necessary to avoid that suspend locks up while md RAID 1 resync is in progress. Bart.
