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Bug#375730: marked as done (Page writeback broken after resume)

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and subject line Page writeback broken after resume
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Package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686
Version: 2.6.16-15
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Hi,
Page writeback together with swsusp has been broken in 2.6  for some
time.  After a suspend/resume the background page writeback is usually
not working. This can be seen by looking at /proc/vmstat: nr_dirty or
/proc/meminfo: Dirty. After a resume, the number of dirty pages are
not decreasing towards 0, but staying quite high. For more info see:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=114813031000002

A patch to correct this problem is included in upstream since
2.6.17-git9.

Please include this patch in 2.6.16 and 2.6.17, as I think it's quite
important due to the risk of data loss if anything bad happens.

The patch can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17/2.6.17-mm2/broken-out/pdflush-handle-resume-wakeups.patch

Peter

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Architecture: i386 (i686)
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Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 depends on:
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ii  libc6-i686            2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i

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Version 2.6.17-5

Closing this bug since it was fixed in 2.6.17.7,
which was included in 2.6.17-5.

-- 
Peter

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