Re: [Jfs-discussion] Re: 2.5.27: Software Suspend failure / JFS errors

From: Dave Kleikamp (shaggy@austin.ibm.com)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 11:15:14 EST

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On Tuesday 23 July 2002 10:06, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> As I read 'Software Suspend' in the subject I guess it's swsusp
> fault. Swsusp needs magic flags for kernel threads which no one has
> added to JFS yet.

I understood the swsusp to be an unrelated issue. Is swsusp even
available in a 2.4 kernel?

I believe to fix the swsusp problem, the kernel threads need to test
(current->flags & PF_FREEZE), and if set call
refrigerator(PF_IOTHREAD).

-- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center

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