From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261471AbVG1Vqu (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:46:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261519AbVG1Vqu (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:46:50 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:27083 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261471AbVG1Vqt (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:46:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:27:16 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier: Implement todo list in task_struct Message-ID: <20050728212715.GA2783@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200507260340.j6Q3eoGh029135@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20050728074116.GF6529@elf.ucw.cz> <20050728193433.GA1856@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > Introduce a todo notifier in the task_struct so that a task can be told to do > certain things. Abuse the suspend hooks try_to_freeze, freezing and refrigerator > to establish checkpoints where the todo list is processed. This will break software > suspend (next patch fixes and cleans up software suspend). Ugh, this conflicts with stuff in -mm tree rather badly... In part thanks to patch by you that was already applied. I fixed up rejects manually (but probably lost fix or two in progress), and will test. Uff, and then it breaks suspend completely: Jul 28 23:21:12 amd kernel: Stopping tasks: =====================================Restarting tasks...khpsbpkt: received unexpected signal?! Jul 28 23:21:12 amd kernel: NodeMgr: received unexpected signal?! Jul 28 23:21:22 amd kernel: done Jul 28 23:21:32 amd pam_limits[1547]: wrong limit value 'unlimited' (Left me with basically all kernel threads going crazy:) top - 23:22:34 up 3 min, 4 users, load average: 5.10, 1.90, 0.69 Tasks: 48 total, 2 running, 46 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 100.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 2064480k total, 155664k used, 1908816k free, 10280k buffers Swap: 2136448k total, 0k used, 2136448k free, 114624k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 273 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 21.1 0.0 0:11.24 kswapd0 938 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 21.1 0.0 0:11.24 pccardd 940 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 21.1 0.0 0:11.30 pccardd 1060 root 25 0 0 0 0 R 21.1 0.0 0:21.34 kjournald 1409 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 17.3 0.0 0:19.71 kjournald You are doing rather intrusive changes. Is testing them too much to ask? I'm pretty sure you can get i386 machine to test swsusp on... Pavel -- teflon -- maybe it is a trademark, but it should not be.