From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 2/5] swsusp: Use memory bitmaps during resume Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:34:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20060809103442.GJ3308@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200608091152.49094.rjw@sisk.pl> <200608091204.36186.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200608091204.36186.rjw@sisk.pl> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Linux PM , LKML List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Hi! Okay, I'm little out of time now, and I do not understand 2 and 3 in the series. > Make swsusp use memory bitmaps to store its internal information during t= he > resume phase of the suspend-resume cycle. > = > If the pfns of saveable pages are saved during the suspend phase instead = of > the kernel virtual addresses of these pages, we can use them during the r= esume > phase directly to set the corresponding bits in a memory bitmap. Then, t= his > bitmap is used to mark the page frames corresponding to the pages that we= re > saveable before the suspend (aka "unsafe" page frames). > = > Next, we allocate as many page frames as needed to store the entire suspe= nd > image and make sure that there will be some extra free "safe" page frames= for > the list of PBEs constructed later. Subsequently, the image is loaded an= d, > if possible, the data loaded from it are written into their "original" pa= ge frames > (ie. the ones they had occupied before the suspend). The image data that > cannot be written into their "original" page frames are loaded into "safe= " page > frames and their "original" kernel virtual addresses, as well as the addr= esses > of the "safe" pages containing their copies, are stored in a list of PBEs. > Finally, the list of PBEs is used to copy the remaining image data into t= heir > "original" page frames (this is done atomically, by the architecture-depe= ndent > parts of swsusp). So... if page in highmem is allocated during resume, you'll still need to copy it during assembly "atomic copy", right? Unfortunately, our assembler parts can't do it just now...? Pavel -- = (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html