Re: [PATCH] Hibernation: Document __save_processor_state() on x86-64

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* Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote:

> > what's exactly in the hibernation image? Dirty data i suppose
> 
> No, everything, including the kernel code, page tables etc. :-)
> 
> > - but what about kernel-internal pages. What if we go from SLAB to 
> > SLUB? What if the size of a structure changes? Etc.
> 
> We can go from SLAB to SLUB just fine, it doesn't matter.  The only 
> thing that matters is we have to jump to the right address at the end 
> of core_restore_code() (defined in arch/x86/kernel/suspend_asm_64.S).

ok, just to make sure we are talking about the same thing. Do you mean 
we can restore an image saved by v2.6.12 into v2.6.24? I.e. a 2.6.24 
kernel will be able to run a 2.6.12 kernel's hibernation image, with all 
the kernel internal data from v2.6.12, etc? No way can that work.

	Ingo
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