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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	nigel@suspend2.net,
	Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:10:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709211410.45248.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070921094908.GB20149@elf.ucw.cz>

On Friday, 21 September 2007 11:49, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > Seems like good enough for -mm to me.
> 
> (For the record, I do not think this is going to be
> hibernation-replacement any time soon. But it is functionality useful
> for other stuff -- dump memory and continue -- and yes it may be able
> to do hibernation in the long term.
> 
> It really comes from the other side of reliability:
> 
> * swsusp is "if your kernel is perfectly healthy, it will work"
> 
> while this, coming from kdump is
> 
> * "if your kernel is not completely trashed, it should work"
> 
> ...which is why can't use swsusp to do dump memory and continue -- you
> want to do dumps on "slightly broken" systems. And yes, as a
> sideeffect it may be able to do hibernation... why not, lets see how
> it works out).

I generally agree. :-)

Greetings,
Rafael

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-21 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-20  5:34 [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump Huang, Ying
2007-09-20 10:09 ` Pavel Machek
2007-09-21  0:24   ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-21  1:06     ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-21  1:19       ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-21  1:41         ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-21  1:57           ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-21  2:18             ` Huang, Ying
2007-09-21  2:25               ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-21  2:45                 ` Huang, Ying
2007-09-21  2:58                   ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-21  4:46                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-21  9:45                       ` Pavel Machek
2007-09-26 20:30                         ` Joseph Fannin
2007-09-26 20:52                           ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-27  6:33                           ` Huang, Ying
2007-09-27  6:35                             ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-22 22:02                   ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-09-21  3:33             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-21 12:09               ` [linux-pm] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-21 13:14                 ` huang ying
2007-09-21 14:31                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-21 15:02                     ` huang ying
2007-09-21 15:50                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-21 18:11                     ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2007-09-21 19:00                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-21 19:45                         ` Alan Stern
2007-09-21 20:15                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-21 20:26                             ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2007-09-21 20:53                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-21 21:08                                 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2007-09-21 21:25                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-21 21:16                                     ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2007-09-21 23:19                                       ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-21 23:47                                         ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-22 10:40                                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-10-11 20:54                                             ` Pavel Machek
2007-10-24 20:38                                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-22 10:34                                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-22 18:00                                           ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-22 21:51                                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-26 20:52                                               ` Joseph Fannin
2007-09-21  4:16             ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-21 11:56           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-21 11:58             ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-21 12:18               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-21 12:15                 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-21 13:25             ` huang ying
2007-09-24 17:37       ` Thomas Meyer
2007-09-21  9:49     ` Pavel Machek
2007-09-21 12:10       ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2007-09-21  2:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-21  7:27   ` Huang, Ying
2007-09-21  4:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-21  8:42   ` Huang, Ying

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