On Wednesday, November 16, 2011, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Saturday, October 22, 2011, Christoph wrote: > > > >>> PM / Freezer: Freeze filesystems while freezing processes (v2) > >>> > >>> On Sunday, August 07, 2011, Dave Chinner wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 11:17:18PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> > >>>>> > >>>>> Freeze all filesystems during the freezing of tasks by calling > >>>>> freeze_bdev() for each of them and thaw them during the thawing of > >>>>> tasks with the help of thaw_bdev(). > >>>>> > >>>>> This is needed by hibernation, because some filesystems (e.g. XFS) > >>>>> deadlock with the preallocation of memory used by it if the memory > >>>>> pressure caused by it is too heavy. > >>> > >>> Below is an alternative fix, the changelog pretty much explains the > >>> idea. > >>> > >>> I've tested it on Toshiba Portege R500, but I don't have an XFS > >>> partition to verify that it really helps, so I'd appreciate it if > >>> someone able to reproduce the original issue could test it and report > >>> back. > >> > >> Well, the kernel bugtracker is still down and I just like to post my > >> experience with kernel (x64) v3.1-rc8/9 + patches. My machine is a > >> MacBookPro, doomed with 4GB RAM running debian. > >> > >> Bug #1 > >> > >> on the way to hibernate, machine hangs on > >> > >> "PM: Preallocating image memory..." > >> > >> this patch worked for me now for weeks: > >> "[PATCH] PM / Freezer: Freeze filesystems while freezing processes (v2)" > >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/24/77 > > > > This patch is going to be merged into 3.2. > > Hi, > > I was the original reporter of the Bugzilla issue, just didn't know > about this thread until recently. Anyway, I'm running 3.2-rc1 now, > which contains the alternative fix, and I can confirm that it indeed > works: hibernation does not deadlock on my XFS rooted system anymore > during memory preallocation. Thanks everybody for his or her work on > the issue! > > To add something still, preallocation now ends with a couple of seconds > of heavy disk activity, but with several seconds of total inactivity > beforehand. Is this warranted by some CPU intensive task at that stage? Quilte frankly, I have no idea. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
