From: pavel@ucw.cz (Pavel Machek)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 15/15] arm64: hibernate: Prevent resume from a different kernel version
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:15:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160216201557.GA6526@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455637767-31561-16-git-send-email-james.morse@arm.com>
On Tue 2016-02-16 15:49:27, James Morse wrote:
> Resuming using a different kernel version is fragile, while there are
> sufficient details in the hibernate arch-header to perform the restore,
> changes in the boot process can have a long-lasting impact on the system.
> In particular, if the EFI stub causes more memory to be allocated, the
> amount of memory left for linux is reduced. If we are lucky, this will
> cause restore to fail with the message:
Well, this does not close the door completely. 4.6-rc0 is going to be
very different from 4.6-rc1. Better solution would be to increase
version every time EFI stub changes, or maybe record ammount of memory
reserved for EFI.
Best regards,
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-16 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-16 15:49 [PATCH v5 00/15] arm64: kernel: Add support for hibernate/suspend-to-disk James Morse
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 01/15] arm64: Fold proc-macros.S into assembler.h James Morse
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 02/15] arm64: Cleanup SCTLR flags James Morse
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 03/15] arm64: Convert hcalls to use HVC immediate value James Morse
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 04/15] arm64: Add new hcall HVC_CALL_FUNC James Morse
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 05/15] arm64: kvm: allows kvm cpu hotplug James Morse
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 06/15] arm64: kernel: Rework finisher callback out of __cpu_suspend_enter() James Morse
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 07/15] arm64: Change cpu_resume() to enable mmu early then access sleep_sp by va James Morse
2016-02-18 18:26 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-02-19 16:20 ` James Morse
2016-02-19 16:43 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 08/15] arm64: kernel: Include _AC definition in page.h James Morse
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 09/15] arm64: Promote KERNEL_START/KERNEL_END definitions to a header file James Morse
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 10/15] arm64: Add new asm macro copy_page James Morse
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 11/15] arm64: head.S: Change the register el2_setup() returns its result in x0 James Morse
2016-02-18 11:41 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-02-18 11:45 ` Pavel Machek
2016-02-18 11:57 ` James Morse
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 12/15] arm64: head.S: el2_setup() to accept sctlr_el1 as an argument James Morse
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 13/15] PM / Hibernate: Call flush_icache_range() on pages restored in-place James Morse
2016-02-16 19:27 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 14/15] arm64: kernel: Add support for hibernate/suspend-to-disk James Morse
2016-02-18 17:13 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-02-16 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 15/15] arm64: hibernate: Prevent resume from a different kernel version James Morse
2016-02-16 20:15 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2016-02-17 2:20 ` Chen, Yu C
2016-02-18 12:00 ` James Morse
2016-02-20 19:16 ` Chen, Yu C
2016-02-20 19:57 ` Pavel Machek
2016-02-21 9:04 ` Chen, Yu C
2016-02-23 18:29 ` [PATCH v5 00/15] arm64: kernel: Add support for hibernate/suspend-to-disk Kevin Hilman
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