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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au>
Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	TuxOnIce-devel <tuxonice-devel@tuxonice.net>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Proposal for a new algorithm for reading & writing a hibernation image.
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 07:25:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100530052546.GA25287@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE7475A.8030901@crca.org.au>

Hi!

> 2. Prior to writing any of the image, also set up new 4k page tables 
> such that an attempt to make a change to any of the pages we're about to 
> write to disk will result in a page fault, giving us an opportunity to 
> flag the page as needing an atomic copy later. Once this is done, write 
> protection for the page can be disabled and the write that caused the 
> fault allowed to proceed.

Tricky.

page faulting code touches memory, too...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-03  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-09 23:38 Proposal for a new algorithm for reading & writing a hibernation image Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-10 15:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2010-05-10 21:16   ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-30  5:25 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2010-06-03  8:14   ` [linux-pm] " Nigel Cunningham

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