On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:04:46 AM Josh Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Dredging up a really old thread, sorry. > > > > We're still carrying this patch along in Fedora. Should we drop it at > > this point, or is it still eventually going to head upstream? > > Fixed Rafael's email address. (Double sorry.) No biggie. I just hadn't got sufficient response for that patch at the time it was submitted, so I guess it would be good to resubmit it. Please feel free to do that if you want. Thanks! -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- 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
