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Re: [PATCH] Revert "xfs: clear PF_NOFREEZE for xfsaild kthread"

To: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "xfs: clear PF_NOFREEZE for xfsaild kthread"
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 09:37:29 +0100 (CET)
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On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Dave Chinner wrote:

> This reverts commit 24ba16bb3d499c49974669cd8429c3e4138ab102 as it
> prevents machines from suspending. This regression occurs when the
> xfsaild is idle on entry to suspend, and so there s no activity to
> wake it from it's idle sleep and hence see that it is supposed to
> freeze. Hence the freezer times out waiting for it and suspend is
> cancelled.
> 
> There is no obvious fix for this short of freezing the filesystem
> properly, so revert this change for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I hope I'll find time in the future and make some progress on making the 
fs freezing happen during suspend properly. Unfortunately, before that 
happens

        Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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