Re: swsusp vs pgdir

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jan 23 2004 - 02:36:45 EST


Hi!

> I've been bored enough today to hack on getting the current
> pmdisk/swsusp up on ppc. The required arch code should be almost
> identical.
>
> However, when looking at it, I didn't fully understand how you
> actually ensure your page mappings aren't beeing blown away
> behind your back during the copy operation on resume, but since
> my knowledge of x86 is almost inexistant, I didn't decipher this
> from the source code. Could you explain a bit ?
>
> The thing is that you seem to point to the swapper pgdir during
> the copy, that is the kernel page tables, but those are beeing
> wiped out during the copy potentially, no ?

We test that CPU has PSE feature. That means kernel is mapped using
4MB page tables, and I do not have to care about page tables at
all.
Pavel
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