From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: swsusp status report Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:11:45 -0400 Message-ID: <20060725151145.GG14964@redhat.com> References: <200607251325.14747.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607251325.14747.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: LKML , Linux PM , Pavel Machek List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:25:14PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > V. Freeing memory > > Step (3) of the suspend procedure is completed by calling the same > functions that are normally used by kswapd, but in a slightly different way. > The part of swsusp responsible for that is referred to as 'the memory > shrinker' and it may sometimes be called by the suspend-to-RAM code as well This isn't actually necessary though is it ? (Ie, it's a bug that needs fixing?) Good write-up btw, it may even be a nice addition to Documentation/power/ ? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk