On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 05:14:23PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote: > Then, the operation simply isn't freezable while in progress and > should be on the receiving end of failed-to-freeze error message and > users who depend on suspend/hibernation working properly should be > advised away from using nfs. > > It doesn't really changes anything. The current code is buggy. We're > just not enforcing the rules strictly and people aren't hitting the > bug often enough. Just one more thing. Also, not being able to do retries without side-effect doesn't mean it can't do retries at all. There are syscalls which need to do things differently on re-entry (forgot which one but there are several). They record the necessary state in the restart block and resume from where they left off on re-entry. It sure is hairy but is doable and we already have supporting infrastructure. Not sure whether that would be worthwhile tho. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html