The patch titled freezer: do not sync filesystems from freeze_processes has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was freezer-do-not-sync-filesystems-from-freeze_processes.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: freezer: do not sync filesystems from freeze_processes From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> The syncing of filesystems from within the freezer is generally not needed. Also, if there's an ext3 filesystem loopback-mounted from a FUSE one, the syncing results in writes to it and deadlocks. Similarly, it will deadlock if FUSE implements sync. Change freeze_processes() so that it doesn't execute sys_sync() and make the suspend and hibernation code path sync filesystems independently of the freezer. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/power/disk.c | 4 ++++ kernel/power/main.c | 6 ++++++ kernel/power/process.c | 1 - kernel/power/user.c | 4 ++++ 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/power/disk.c~freezer-do-not-sync-filesystems-from-freeze_processes kernel/power/disk.c --- a/kernel/power/disk.c~freezer-do-not-sync-filesystems-from-freeze_processes +++ a/kernel/power/disk.c @@ -313,6 +313,10 @@ int hibernate(void) if (error) goto Exit; + printk("Syncing filesystems ... "); + sys_sync(); + printk("done.\n"); + error = prepare_processes(); if (error) goto Finish; diff -puN kernel/power/main.c~freezer-do-not-sync-filesystems-from-freeze_processes kernel/power/main.c --- a/kernel/power/main.c~freezer-do-not-sync-filesystems-from-freeze_processes +++ a/kernel/power/main.c @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ #include <linux/resume-trace.h> #include <linux/freezer.h> #include <linux/vmstat.h> +#include <linux/syscalls.h> #include "power.h" @@ -230,9 +231,14 @@ static int enter_state(suspend_state_t s if (!valid_state(state)) return -ENODEV; + if (!mutex_trylock(&pm_mutex)) return -EBUSY; + printk("Syncing filesystems ... "); + sys_sync(); + printk("done.\n"); + pr_debug("PM: Preparing system for %s sleep\n", pm_states[state]); if ((error = suspend_prepare())) goto Unlock; diff -puN kernel/power/process.c~freezer-do-not-sync-filesystems-from-freeze_processes kernel/power/process.c --- a/kernel/power/process.c~freezer-do-not-sync-filesystems-from-freeze_processes +++ a/kernel/power/process.c @@ -191,7 +191,6 @@ int freeze_processes(void) if (error) return error; - sys_sync(); error = try_to_freeze_tasks(FREEZER_KERNEL_THREADS); if (error) return error; diff -puN kernel/power/user.c~freezer-do-not-sync-filesystems-from-freeze_processes kernel/power/user.c --- a/kernel/power/user.c~freezer-do-not-sync-filesystems-from-freeze_processes +++ a/kernel/power/user.c @@ -153,6 +153,10 @@ static int snapshot_ioctl(struct inode * mutex_lock(&pm_mutex); error = pm_notifier_call_chain(PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE); if (!error) { + printk("Syncing filesystems ... "); + sys_sync(); + printk("done.\n"); + error = freeze_processes(); if (error) thaw_processes(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rjw@xxxxxxx are origin.patch git-acpi.patch revert-x86_64-mm-cpa-einval.patch shrink_slab-handle-bad-shrinkers.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