Hi Nick.
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 20:14, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > From: Nigel Cunningham <[email protected]>
> >
> > This patch removes the dependency that swap suspend currently has on
> > PageReserved. In the places where PageReserved is currently set and
> > cleared, we also set and clear PageNosave, and in swap suspend itself,
> > we only reference PageNosave. The ongoing effort at freeing PageReserved
> > thus achieves another step forward.
> >
>
> Any reason you can't use page_is_ram directly? I would rather you
> do this than moving swsusp specific flags out into the wider tree.
> The reason is that these flags now become just as hard to kill as
> PageReserved is.
>
> You'll have to slightly modify i386's page_is_ram, because it
> appears that you'll actually want
>
> 'page_is_ram(pfn) && !(bad_ppro && page_kills_ppro(pfn))'
Thanks for the suggestion!
I suppose we could do something like what you are suggesting. I'll take
a look. I'm not promising to do it immediately though - too busy trying
to finish off Suspend2 at the mo.
> Thanks, glad someone is looking into this!
Always glad to be of service!
Nigel
> Nick
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