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From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC 09/15] PM / Hibernate: user,
 implement	user_ops writer
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:01:23 +1100
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Hi.

On 01/04/10 01:47, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Regarding using LRU pages as temporary storage, if it wasn't safe and
>> reliable, I would have stopped doing it ages ago. The only problem I can
>
> What kind of argument is that?
>
> And what prevents people from introducing more KMS-like breakage in
> future?

Nothing. And we catch it when it occurs and resave the pages. It is of 
course also possible for us to take a more complicated approach and save 
just what we know is safe.

Or we could just use kexec...

Nigel