Hi.
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 22:54, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday, 5 of October 2005 14:12, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > Here's the patch we've previously discussed, which removes the
> > > dependancy of swap suspend on PageReserved.
> >
> > This ends up in Linus' changelog, so "we've previously discussed"
> > is not okay here. Missing signed-off. What is benefit of this?
> >
> > swsusp part looks okay, but will Andrew like the generic part? I guess
> > I'd prefer to postpone this one (unless we are last user of
> > PageReserved) -- I do not see too big benefit and there's potential
> > for breakage.
>
> Basically, what it does is to make swsusp avoid saving (and restoring)
> non-RAM pages (like the ISA hole, BIOS etc.). I think it is a nice thing
> to do and it does not hurt anyone (it only clears and/or sets PG_nosave
> at some places). However, if we decide to do this for i386, it should
> also be done for x86-64.
True. I wasn't thinking about others arches, and should have. I'll
modify the patch and seek to repost today.
Regards,
Nigel
> Greetings,
> Rafael
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