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There are 2 distinct freezing mechanisms - one operates on block devices and another one directly on super blocks. Both end up with the same result, but thaw of only one of these does not thaw the other. In particular fsfreeze --freeze uses the ioctl variant going to the super block. Since prior to this patch emergency thaw was not doing a relevant thaw, filesystems frozen with this method remained unaffected. The patch is a hack which adds blind unfreezing. In order to keep the super block write-locked the whole time the code is shuffled around and the newly introduced __iterate_supers is employed. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.