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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, seife@suse.de
Subject: Re: swsusp with highmem, testing wanted
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:41:01 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080254461.1195.40.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040325120250.GC300@elf.ucw.cz>


> I'd need to do atomic copy. (Unless someone can guarantee that during
> writing to disk, no highmem page is going to be changed...)
> 
> "copy back" during resume is done in assembly, and I'd rather not
> dealed with highmem there.

Can you make that an option ? The PPC version runs in real mode and
can perfectly copy highmem pages (with small tweaks maybe)

> OTOH, if it possible to guarantee that highmem pages do not change
> during reads/writes to disk, I might be able to get away without this
> copy.

I also think we free too much memory btw (and spend too much time
trying to free memory). Have you looked at some of Nigel stuffs in
swsusp2 ? There may be good ideas to borrow... 

Ben.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-25 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-24 23:57 swsusp with highmem, testing wanted Pavel Machek
2004-03-25  3:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found]   ` <20040325120250.GC300@elf.ucw.cz>
2004-03-25 22:41     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-03-25 22:59       ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-25 22:44         ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-03-25 23:54           ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-25 23:06             ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-03-26  0:22         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-25  3:48 ` Jeff Chua
     [not found] ` <20040325073244.GE3377@suse.de>
     [not found]   ` <20040325115129.GB300@elf.ucw.cz>
     [not found]     ` <20040325121418.GK3377@suse.de>
2004-03-25 15:01       ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-25 15:27         ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-25 22:22           ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-26 14:09             ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-26 14:34               ` Pavel Machek
     [not found] ` <20040325100339.GN791@holomorphy.com>
2004-03-25 21:59   ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-26 12:03     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-26 12:08       ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-26 12:36         ` William Lee Irwin III

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