The patch titled Allow cifsd to suspend if connection is lost has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is allow-cifsd-to-suspend-if-connection-is-lost.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Allow cifsd to suspend if connection is lost From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> Make cifsd allow us to suspend if it has lost the connection with the server. Ref. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6811 Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN fs/cifs/connect.c~allow-cifsd-to-suspend-if-connection-is-lost fs/cifs/connect.c --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c~allow-cifsd-to-suspend-if-connection-is-lost +++ a/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ cifs_reconnect(struct TCP_Server_Info *s while ((server->tcpStatus != CifsExiting) && (server->tcpStatus != CifsGood)) { + try_to_freeze(); if(server->protocolType == IPV6) { rc = ipv6_connect(&server->addr.sockAddr6,&server->ssocket); } else { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rjw@xxxxxxx are pm-define-pm_event_prethaw.patch pm-pci-and-ide-handle-pm_event_prethaw.patch pm-video-drivers-and-pm_event_prethaw.patch pm-usb-hcds-use-pm_event_prethaw.patch pm-usb-hcds-use-pm_event_prethaw-fix.patch pm-issue-pm_event_prethaw.patch swsusp-write-timer.patch swsusp-write-speedup.patch swsusp-read-timer.patch swsusp-read-speedup.patch swsusp-read-speedup-fix.patch swsusp-read-speedup-cleanup.patch swsusp-read-speedup-cleanup-2.patch swsusp-clean-up-browsing-of-pfns.patch swsusp-struct-snapshot_handle-cleanup.patch make-swsusp-avoid-memory-holes-and-reserved-memory-regions-on-x86_64.patch make-suspend-possible-with-a-traced-process-at-a-breakpoint.patch allow-cifsd-to-suspend-if-connection-is-lost.patch fix-swsusp-with-pnp-bios.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html