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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] swsusp: Stop using page flags
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:52:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1173610325.5182.1.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703111117.27083.rjw@sisk.pl>

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 11:17 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The following three patches make swsusp use its own data structures for memory
> management instead of special page flags.  Thus the page flags used so far by
> swsusp (PG_nosave, PG_nosave_free) can be used for other purposes and I believe
> there are some urgend needs of them. :-)
> 
> Last week I sent these patches to the linux-pm and linux-mm lists and there
> were no negative comments.  Also I've been testing them on my x86_64 boxes for
> a few days and apparently they don't break anything.  I think they can go into
> -mm for testing.
> 
> Comments are welcome.

These patches have my blessing, they look good to me, but I'm not much
involved with the swsusp code, so I won't ACK them.

Again, thanks a bunch for freeing up 2 page flags :-)

Peter


      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-11 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-11 10:17 [RFC][PATCH 0/3] swsusp: Stop using page flags Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-03-11 10:26 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] swsusp: Use inline functions for changing " Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-03-12  9:01   ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-11 10:31 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] swsusp: Do not use " Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-03-12  9:03   ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-11 10:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/3] mm: Remove unused " Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-03-12  9:03   ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-11 10:52 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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