Re: Suspend-to-disk woes

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> Hello, I experienced a pretty nasty problem a couple of days back:
> 
> I ran 2.6.11-ck1 and built 2.6.11-ck2. The last thing I did before 
> booting the new kernel was to suspend-to-disk the old kernel 
> (something I usually do as I'm working on this laptop).
> I ran the new kernel a couple of days and decided to boot the old 
> kernel to do some performance tests. Imagine my dread as the old 
> kernel instead of detecting that the system has booted another kernel 
> just reloads the old suspend-to-disk image. The result is that after 
> succesfully resuming, my harddrive goes bonkers and starts to work. 
> After a couple of minutes the whole kernel hangs. I reboot and try to 
> boot the -ck2 kernel again only to find that the system complains as 
> it finds missing nodes. The reisertools try to rebuild the system 
> unsucessully. The --rebuild-tree parameter worked but a lot of files 
> were still missing. In the end I had to reinstall the whole system as 
> it went so unstable.
> 
> My question is: Why isn't there a check before resuming a 
> suspend-to-disk image if the system has booted another kernel since 
> the suspend to prevent this kind of hassle?

Checking that would be hard, but you might want to provide patch to check
last-mounted dates of filesystems and panic if they changed.
				Pavel
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