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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>,
	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Subject: Re: Back to the future.
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:28:45 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704280926140.9964@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070428085000.GA3293@elf.ucw.cz>



On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> We do not want kernel threads running:
> 
> a) they may hold some locks and deadlock suspend
> 
> b) they may do some writes to disk, leading to corruption

You're really just making both of those up.

If a kernel thread holds a lock and deadlocks suspend, that would deadlock 
anythign else _too_. Suspend isn't *that* special. Everything it does are 
things other people do too.

And no, kernel threads do not write to disk on their own. Name one. They 
help *others* write to disk, but those disk writes need to happen.

The freezer has *caused* those deadlocks (eg by stopping threads that were 
needed for the suspend writeouts to succeed!), not solved them.

So stop making these totally bogus arguments up.

			Linus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-28 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 136+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-26  6:04 Back to the future Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26  7:28 ` Pekka Enberg
     [not found]   ` <1177573348.50 25.224.camel@nigel.suspend2.net>
2007-04-26  7:42   ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26  8:17     ` Pekka Enberg
2007-04-26  9:28       ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26 17:29         ` Luca Tettamanti
2007-04-26 16:56     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-26 17:03       ` Xavier Bestel
2007-04-26 17:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-26 20:08           ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26 20:45             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-26 20:50               ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-27  0:10                 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-04-27 10:21                   ` Daniel Pittman
2007-04-27 23:19                   ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26 21:38             ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-27 10:10               ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-26 22:08             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-26 22:20               ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26 23:15               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-27  7:51           ` Pekka Enberg
2007-04-26 17:07       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-26 18:22       ` Chase Venters
2007-04-26 18:50         ` David Lang
2007-04-26 19:56       ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-27  4:52         ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-27  6:08           ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-27  6:18             ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-27  6:29               ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-27  6:34               ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-27  6:50                 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-27  7:03                   ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-27  7:24                     ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-27  9:50               ` Oliver Neukum
2007-04-27 10:12                 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-27 19:07                   ` Oliver Neukum
2007-04-28  9:22                     ` Pekka Enberg
2007-04-28 13:37                       ` Oliver Neukum
2007-05-03 12:06                         ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-04 21:52                           ` Indan Zupancic
2007-05-05  9:16                             ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-05 12:02                               ` Indan Zupancic
2007-04-28 10:35                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 18:43                     ` David Lang
2007-04-28 19:37                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 21:24               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 21:44                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-27 22:04                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 22:08                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-27 22:41                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 22:26                         ` David Lang
2007-04-27 23:21                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 23:01                             ` David Lang
2007-04-28  0:02                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 23:17                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-27 23:45                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 23:57                             ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-27 23:50                               ` David Lang
2007-04-28  0:40                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-28  6:58                                 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-04-28  9:16                                   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-28 18:28                                   ` David Lang
2007-05-03 17:18                                 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-07  2:13                                   ` David Lang
2007-05-07  3:33                                     ` Kyle Moffett
2007-05-07 12:48                                     ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-07 12:52                                       ` Oliver Neukum
2007-05-07 14:37                                         ` david
2007-05-07 19:51                                           ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-07 19:55                                             ` david
2007-05-07 20:38                                               ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-08 17:36                                                 ` Disconnect
2007-04-27 23:59                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-28  0:18                               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-05 11:42                                 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-28  0:50                               ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-28  1:00                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28  1:12                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-28  0:54                                   ` David Lang
2007-04-28  1:44                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28  2:51                                     ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-04-28  7:00                                       ` progress meter in s2disk (was Re: Back to the future.) Pavel Machek
2007-04-28  8:50                                     ` Back to the future Pavel Machek
2007-04-28  9:24                                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 16:28                                       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-04-28 17:50                                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 21:25                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-28 23:03                                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 23:45                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-29  0:01                                                 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-29  5:01                                                   ` Bojan Smojver
2007-04-29  3:43                                                 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-29  8:57                                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-29  8:59                                                   ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-29  9:32                                                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-29  8:23                                             ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-29  9:22                                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 18:32                                       ` David Lang
2007-04-28 19:14                                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 18:44                                           ` David Lang
2007-05-03 15:25                           ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-27 22:07                   ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-28  1:03                     ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-28  1:15                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28  0:51                         ` David Lang
2007-04-28  1:25                         ` Kyle Moffett
2007-05-03 15:10                       ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-03 16:53                         ` Kyle Moffett
2007-05-04  7:52                           ` David Greaves
2007-05-04 13:27                             ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-28  0:18                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-28  1:00                     ` Matthew Garrett
2007-04-28  1:05                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-03 15:14                         ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-01 19:00                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-28  1:08                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 20:44           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 19:09         ` Bill Davidsen
2007-04-26 22:40       ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-27  5:41         ` Pekka Enberg
2007-04-27 14:55           ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-27 21:39             ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26 22:42       ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-26 22:24         ` David Lang
2007-04-26 23:12           ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-26 22:49             ` David Lang
2007-04-26 23:27               ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-26 22:56                 ` David Lang
2007-04-27  0:23               ` Olivier Galibert
2007-04-27 12:49       ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-27 21:26         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 22:12           ` David Lang
2007-04-26  8:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-26  9:33   ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-28  0:28 ` Bojan Smojver
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2007-04-28 11:04             ` Bodo Eggert

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