From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262882AbVCDM0R (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 07:26:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262855AbVCDMVA (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 07:21:00 -0500 Received: from grendel.digitalservice.pl ([217.67.200.140]:18841 "HELO mail.digitalservice.pl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262891AbVCDL6R (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 06:58:17 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: swsusp: use non-contiguous memory on resume Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:00:20 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hugang@soulinfo.com References: <20050304095934.GA1731@elf.ucw.cz> <20050304032952.4b2e456b.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304115214.GA2168@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20050304115214.GA2168@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503041300.20535.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday, 4 of March 2005 12:52, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > > Problem is that pagedir is allocated as order-8 allocation on resume > > > > > in -mmX (and linus). Unfortunately, order-8 allocation sometimes > > > > > fails, and for some people (Rafael, seife :-) it fails way too often. > > > > > > > > > > Solution is to change format of pagedir from table to linklist, > > > > > avoiding high-order alocation. Unfortunately that means changes to > > > > > assembly, too, as assembly walks the pagedir. > > > > > > > > Ah. > > > > > > > > > (Or maybe Rafael is willing to create -mm version and submit it > > > > > himself?) > > > > > > > > No, against -linus, please. But the chunk in kernel/power/swsusp.c looks > > > > like it came from a diff between -mm and -linus. Or something. > > > > > > Yes, I did diff between -mm and -pavel, sorry. > > > > > > But I can't easily generate diff against -linus because that one is > > > dependend on fixing order-8 allocations during suspend. So I guess > > > I'll just wait until that one propagates into -linus? > > > > Just generate a patch series? > > When #1 of the series is already in -mm? Okay, I guess we can do that. Can I? Rafael -- - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? - That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. -- Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"