Re: [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> > > +commands defined in kernel/power/power.h.  The major and minor
> > > +numbers of the device are, respectively, 10 and 231, and they can
> > > +be read from /sys/class/misc/snapshot/dev.
> > 
> > Is this still true?
> 
> You mean the /sys/class/misc/snapshot/dev?  Yes, until sysfs gets revamped.

Ahha, but it is not your code but misc-handling code in kernel, right?

> > > +SNAPSHOT_IOCAVAIL_SWAP - check the amount of available swap (the last argument
> > > +	should be a pointer to an unsigned int variable that will contain
> > > +	the result if the call is successful)
> > 
> > Is this good idea? It will overflow on 32-bit systems. Ammount of
> > available swap can be >4GB. [Or maybe it is in something else than
> > bytes, then you need to specify it.]
> 
> It returns the number of pages.  Well, it should be written explicitly,
> so I'll fix that.
> 
> [This feature is actually useful, because it allows you to check if you have
> enough swap after creating the snapshot and retry for eg. image_size = 0
> without unfreezing tasks.]

Ok. [I was asking about unsigned int, it is clear that querying
available swap is useful]. If you return swap offsets, you may want to
specify if it is #bytes/#pages, too.

> > Ouch and you have my ACK on next attempt :-).
> 
> Thanks (you are brave, though ;-)).

I... think you can call it "brave", yes. Nice euphemism ;-)))).
								Pavel
-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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