On Tuesday, 20 of November 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > increasing CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE from 7777 to 131072 hasn't
> > > changed the non-functioning of 2.6.24-rc3
> > >
> > > s2disk works with 2.6.23.8 ; I tested 4 cycles in a row, 2 from
> > > console and 2 from within X
> >
> > I've attached a patch to the bugzilla entry, please test it.
> [...]
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
> > @@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ static void __init handle_initrd(void)
> > sys_mount(".", "/", NULL, MS_MOVE, NULL);
> > sys_chroot(".");
> >
> > + current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
> > +
> > pid = kernel_thread(do_linuxrc, "/linuxrc", SIGCHLD);
> > if (pid > 0)
> > while (pid != sys_wait4(-1, NULL, 0, NULL)) {
>
> this is not the first time (and not the last time) that a missing
> PF_NOFREEZE is causing hard to debug suspend problems. I think we should
> be more robust about this and at minimum include some debug mechanism
> that determines when a PF_NOFREEZE annotation is missing. (or at least
> detect the condition somehow and report it) This bug took 10 days to
> track down.
In fact all of the needed pieces are in there, I only needed the right dmesg
output to figure out what's wrong.
Also, I don't think we should use PF_NOFREEZE in there, as this is an
exceptional case. I'd prefer to use the appended fix, which also has been
tested.
Thanks,
Rafael
---
init/do_mounts_initrd.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
+++ linux-2.6/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
@@ -55,12 +55,18 @@ static void __init handle_initrd(void)
sys_mount(".", "/", NULL, MS_MOVE, NULL);
sys_chroot(".");
+ /*
+ * In case that a resume from disk is carreid out by linuxrc or one of
+ * its children, we need to tell the freezer not to wait for us
+ */
+ current->flags |= PF_FREEZER_SKIP;
+
pid = kernel_thread(do_linuxrc, "/linuxrc", SIGCHLD);
if (pid > 0)
- while (pid != sys_wait4(-1, NULL, 0, NULL)) {
- try_to_freeze();
+ while (pid != sys_wait4(-1, NULL, 0, NULL))
yield();
- }
+
+ current->flags &= ~PF_FREEZER_SKIP;
/* move initrd to rootfs' /old */
sys_fchdir(old_fd);
-
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