Re: Hibernation Redesign

Nick Piggin
2007-07-09T04:59:06Z

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> writes:

>>Yes, I have a rough idea about how page reclaim works. But I just
>>mean it would not be trivial to load the new kernel into physically
>>discontiguous memory. Possible of course, but I don't think kexec or
>>the setup code could quite cope ATM.
>
>
> It would indeed be a pain for the new kernel to be loaded and have to
> use discontiguous memory. The trick is, though, that this is not
> necessary. Immediately before jumping to the new kernel, the first X
> bytes (where X is the amount of memory the new kernel will get,
> typically 16MB or 64MB) of physical memory are backed up into the
> arbitrary discontiguous pages that are made available. This will not
> take very long, because copying even 64MB of memory is extremely fast.
> Then the new kernel is free to use the first X bytes of contiguous
> physical memory. Problem solved.

Ah, that sounds like it would be the right way to go. Good thinking.

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