Hi,
On Thursday 23 February 2006 01:33, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > > > The fact that we use page flags to store some suspend/resume-related
> > > > > > information is a big disadvantage in my view, and I'd like to get rid
> > > > > > of that in the future. In principle we could use a bitmap, or rather
> > > > > > two of them, to store the same information independently of the page
> > > > > > flags, and if we use bitmaps for this purpose, we can use them also
> > > > > > instead of PBEs.
> > > > >
> > > > > Well, we "only" use 2 bits... :-).
> > > >
> > > > In my view the problem is this adds constraints that other people have to
> > > > take into account. Not a good thing if avoidable IMHO.
> > >
> > > Well, I hope that swsusp development will move to userland in future
> > >
> > > :-).
> >
> > I don't get your point. I mean, we're talking about flags that record what
> > pages are going to be in the image, be atomically copied and so on. Are you
> > planning on trying to export the free page information and the like to
> > userspace too, along with atomic copy code?
>
> No, certainly not.
>
> Rafael said something like "being limited is bad, because it makes it
> hard to change in-kernel snapshoting code". My reply was something
> like "I hope people will stop changing in-kernel swsusp code, and hack
> userland instead".
Actually I meant all of the other users of page flags. If we didn't use page
flags, they would be less constrained in what they're doing.
Greetings,
Rafael
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