fs: allow all writers to be frozen
During freeze/thaw we need to be able to freeze all writers during suspend/hibernate. Otherwise tasks such as systemd-journald that mmap a file and write to it will not be frozen after we've already frozen the filesystem. This has some risk of not being able to freeze processes in case a process has acquired SB_FREEZE_PAGEFAULT under mmap_sem or SB_FREEZE_INTERNAL under some other filesytem specific lock. If the filesystem is frozen, a task can block on the frozen filesystem with e.g., mmap_sem held. If some other task then blocks on grabbing that mmap_sem, hibernation ill fail because it is unable to hibernate a task holding mmap_sem. This could be fixed by making a range of filesystem related locks use freezable sleeping. That's impractical and not warranted just for suspend/hibernate. Assume that this is an infrequent problem and we've given userspace a way to skip filesystem freezing through a sysfs file. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402-work-freeze-v2-2-6719a97b52ac@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250327140613.25178-3-James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com [brauner: make all freeze levels set TASK_FREEZABLE and rewrite commit message] Reviewed-by:Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by:
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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