Re: Bug#234976: kernel-source-2.6.4: Software Suspend doesn't work

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >>come up with a more nuanced test? Better still, though, we should just  
> >>get
> >>proper AGP support for suspending and resuming in.
> >
> >It's got nothing to do with AGP.  This is a flaw in the swsusp code.
> >It can be triggered by anything that plays with page attributes.
> 
> Not so much a flaw in the suspend code as something that needs to be dealt  
> with: it's not a bug for pages to have protection, and its not a bug for  
> us to need it temporarily removed in order to do the copyback. We just  
> need the support in the drivers to achieve that. When we have it (as we do  
> in some cases in 2.4), all is well.

No, Herbert is right here. This *is* swsusp fault. Swsusp assumes 4MB
tables which is not guaranteed even on PSE machines. 
								Pavel
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