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-rw-r--r--fs/kernfs/mount.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/mount.c b/fs/kernfs/mount.c
index 5124e196c2bf..46d773411ba8 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/mount.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/mount.c
@@ -62,6 +62,21 @@ const struct super_operations kernfs_sops = {
.show_options = kernfs_sop_show_options,
.show_path = kernfs_sop_show_path,
+
+ /*
+ * sysfs is built on top of kernfs and sysfs provides the power
+ * management infrastructure to support suspend/hibernate by
+ * writing to various files in /sys/power/. As filesystems may
+ * be automatically frozen during suspend/hibernate implementing
+ * freeze/thaw support for kernfs generically will cause
+ * deadlocks as the suspending/hibernation initiating task will
+ * hold a VFS lock that it will then wait upon to be released.
+ * If freeze/thaw for kernfs is needed talk to the VFS.
+ */
+ .freeze_fs = NULL,
+ .unfreeze_fs = NULL,
+ .freeze_super = NULL,
+ .thaw_super = NULL,
};
static int kernfs_encode_fh(struct inode *inode, __u32 *fh, int *max_len,