Re: [PATCH][Fix][Resend] Fix Bug #4959: Page tables corrupted during resume on x86-64 (take 3)

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Sep 29 2005 - 06:03:44 EST


Hi,

On Thursday, 29 of September 2005 02:00, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:24:42PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 28 of September 2005 21:18, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Also Suresh S. has a patch out to turn the initial page tables
> > > into initdata. It'll probably conflict with that. Needs to be coordinated
> > > with him.
> >
> > Do you mean the patch at:
> > http://www.x86-64.org/lists/discuss/msg07297.html ?
> > Unfortunately it interferes with the current swsusp code, which uses
> > init_level4_pgt anyway.
> >
> > Could we please treat my patch as a (very much needed) urgent bugfix
> > and make the whole swsusp code in line with the Suresh's patch later on?
> >
> > Suresh, could you please say what you think of it?
>
> My patch as such shouldn't change the behavior of the existing swsup
> code. I am making only boot_level4_pgt as initdata. But not the
> init_level4_pgt.

Then it should not conflict with my patch either, because I'm only referring
to init_level4_pgt.

Greetings,
Rafael
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