On Friday, May 25, 2012, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> commit b94887bbc0621e1e8402e7f0ec4bc3adf46c9a6e > >> Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> > >> Date: Fri Feb 17 12:42:08 2012 -0500 > >> > >> Freeze all filesystems during system suspend and (kernel-driven) > >> hibernation by calling freeze_supers() for all superblocks and thaw > >> them during the subsequent resume with the help of thaw_supers(). > >> > >> This makes filesystems stay in a consistent state in case something > >> goes wrong between system suspend (or hibernation) and the subsequent > >> resume (e.g. journal replays won't be necessary in those cases). In > >> particular, this should help to solve a long-standing issue that, in > >> some cases, during resume from hibernation the boot loader causes the > >> journal to be replied for the filesystem containing the kernel image > >> and/or initrd causing it to become inconsistent with the information > >> stored in the hibernation image. > >> > >> The user-space-driven hibernation (s2disk) is not covered by this > >> change, because the freezing of filesystems prevents s2disk from > >> accessing device special files it needs to do its job. > >> > >> This change is based on earlier work by Nigel Cunningham. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> > >> > >> Rebased to 3.3-rc3 by Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Did this patch ever wind up going anywhere? Fedora has it sitting in > our tree with a comment that says "rebase" and I don't see it in the > linux-next tree at all. > > Did if fall through the cracks or was it NAKed somewhere? No, it wasn't in principle. There were some comments I haven't addressed yet. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
