From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linux PM <linux-pm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: swsusp status report
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:08:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060726100807.GF1905@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060725151145.GG14964@redhat.com>
On Tue 2006-07-25 11:11:45, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:25:14PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > V. Freeing memory
> >
> > Step (3) of the suspend procedure is completed by calling the same
> > functions that are normally used by kswapd, but in a slightly different way.
> > The part of swsusp responsible for that is referred to as 'the memory
> > shrinker' and it may sometimes be called by the suspend-to-RAM code as well
>
> This isn't actually necessary though is it ?
> (Ie, it's a bug that needs fixing?)
Well, it is "nice" to the drivers to let them do their work with
reasonable ammount of memory free. Of course, it is also bug in the
driver if it fails to work in low-memory conditions.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-26 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-25 11:25 swsusp status report Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-07-25 15:11 ` Dave Jones
2006-07-25 19:39 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-07-26 10:08 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-07-26 15:13 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-26 17:38 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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