Re: Help port swsusp to ppc.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 06:49:07 EST


On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 22:36, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Well, *all* the data pages are saved, so that would be okay (even if
> > > they changed, as I'm replacing all the data pages, that should work),
> > > but I'm not saving kernel text for example.
> >
> > Ahh... that's an interesting point. You aren't saving kernel text. I'm
> > not sure how that could be a problem for me. I think i'll just save it
> > along with the image though.
>
> Also pay attetion to page tables. I know that page tables "copy"
> routine is running from are same between suspend and resume kernel.

I plan to run everything provided by the suspended kernel actually. My idea
is to keep a handle to a page of the suspended kernel that contains that
code and just kick into it. Copying pages to their final location without
overriding the source pages is a bit of a funky job, but I had to do it
already with BootX so ... I'll work on that during one of the upcoming few
weeks hopefully, I'm a bit swamped with 3 different things at the moment.

ben.


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