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@ 2006-01-26  3:45 Nigel Cunningham
  2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 01/23] [Suspend2] Make workqueues freezeable Nigel Cunningham
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From: Nigel Cunningham @ 2006-01-26  3:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hi everyone.

This set of patches represents the freezer upgrade patches from Suspend2.

The key features of this changeset are:

- Use of Christoph Lameter's todo list notifiers, which help with SMP
  cleanness.
- Splitting the freezing of kernel and userspace processes. Freezing
  currently suffers from a race because userspace processes can be
  submitting work for kernel threads, thereby stopping them from
  responding to freeze messages in a timely manner. The freezer can
  thus give up when it doesn't really need to. (This is not normally
  a problem only because load is not usually high).
- The use of bdev freezing to ensure filesystems are properly frozen,
  thereby increasing the integrity of on-disk data in the case where
  a resume doesn't occur. This is also helpful in the case of Suspend2,
  where we don't atomically copy all memory, instead writing LRU pages
  separately.

Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>

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Nigel Cunningham   nigel at suspend2 dot net   http://suspend2.net

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2006-01-26  3:45 [ 00/23] [Suspend2] Freezer Upgrade Patches Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 01/23] [Suspend2] Make workqueues freezeable Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26 23:17   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-27  4:01     ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 02/23] [Suspend2] Add new include/linux/freezer.h header Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 03/23] [Suspend2] Allow a notifier to remove itself from the notifier list Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 04/23] [Suspend2] Todo notifier for processes Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 05/23] [Suspend2] Make the freezer use todo lists Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 06/23] [Suspend2] Disable usermode helper invocations when the freezer is on Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-30 22:05   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-31  3:24     ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-31 10:58       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-31 23:21         ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-02-01  0:33           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 07/23] [Suspend2] Add which-to-thaw parameter to thaw_processes() calls Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 08/23] [Suspend2] New freezer explanation for kernel/power/process.c Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 09/23] [Suspend2] Quieten the freezer for normal operation Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 10/23] [Suspend2] Add support for freezing filesystem bdevs Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 11/23] [Suspend2] Modify freezeable for freezing kernel threads separately Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 12/23] [Suspend2] Split freezing of threads according to whether user/kernelspace Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 13/23] [Suspend2] Add support for thawing just kernel threads or all threads Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 14/23] [Suspend2] Helper for counting freezeable threads of a type Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 15/23] [Suspend2] Helper for counting uninterruptible " Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-30 22:18   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-30 22:25     ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-31  0:02       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-31  9:27         ` [RFC/RFT] finally solve "swsusp fails with mysqld" problem Pavel Machek
2006-01-31 16:17           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-31 21:29             ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-31 22:30               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-31  5:42       ` [ 15/23] [Suspend2] Helper for counting uninterruptible threads of a type Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:45 ` [ 16/23] [Suspend2] Helper to signal all " Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:46 ` [ 17/23] [Suspend2] Helper to prod processes that should have frozen but haven't Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:46 ` [ 18/23] [Suspend2] Helper: Did we fail to freeze all threads of a type? Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:46 ` [ 19/23] [Suspend2] Freeze all threads of a type Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:46 ` [ 20/23] [Suspend2] Modify process.c includes and export freezer state Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:46 ` [ 21/23] [Suspend2] Remove unused DEBUG undef Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:46 ` [ 22/23] [Suspend2] Modify swsusp to thaw kernel threads while eating memory Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26  3:46 ` [ 23/23] [Suspend2] Don't scan LRU while freezer is on Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26 11:55 ` [ 00/23] [Suspend2] Freezer Upgrade Patches Pavel Machek
2006-01-26 21:49   ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-26 23:10 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-27  4:04   ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-27 12:18     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-27 19:20       ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-27 23:22         ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-30  5:54           ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-30 11:50             ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-30  7:53       ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-01-30 11:53         ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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