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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Question about hibernation
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:09:02 +0100
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Am Freitag, 18. M=E4rz 2011, 14:45:24 schrieb Raj Kumar:
> =

> Hi,
> =

> I have following question regarding the hibernation. If a device driver u=
ses dedicated memory (dedicated memory in linux which is not OS addressable=
 e.g. device driver is using some pages from dedicated memory), When the sy=
stem hibernates, will this be responsibility of device driver to save this =
area =

> or =

> OS hibernation procedure save this area of ram (dedicated memory area) in=
to swap image?

If you got it from get_free_pages (at the end of a long call chain) the
kernel saves it. If not, it is your problem.

	HTH
		Oliver