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Re: [PATCH 1/3] power, vfs: move away from PF_KTHREAD freezing in favor of fs freezing

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On Fri, 2015-10-30 at 14:47 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> Basically the main argument why kthread freezer is not needed boils
> down to
> this: the only facility that is needed during suspend: "no persistent
> fs
> changes are allowed from now on".

Is that true? Drivers of character devices also may assume
that IO and suspend() wouldn't race (except in fairly clear exceptions)

	Regards
		Oliver


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[PATCH 1/3] power, vfs: move away from PF_KTHREAD freezing in favor  of fs freezing Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2015-10-30 14:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] power, vfs: move away from PF_KTHREAD freezing in  favor of fs freezing kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2015-10-30 15:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] power, vfs: move away from PF_KTHREAD freezing in  favor of fs freezing Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2015-10-31 10:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] power, vfs: move away from PF_KTHREAD freezing in favor of fs freezing Neil Brown <nfbrown@novell.com> - 2015-11-02 04:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] power, vfs: move away from PF_KTHREAD freezing in favor of fs freezing yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 09:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] power, vfs: move away from PF_KTHREAD freezing in  favor of fs freezing Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2015-11-02 12:10 +0100

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