Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Make swsusp work on i386 with PAE

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Oct 25 2006 - 04:06:22 EST


On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 04:50:33PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > The purpose of the appended patch is to make swsusp work on i386 with PAE,
> > but it should also allow i386 systems without PSE to use swsusp.
> >
> > The patch creates temporary page tables located in resume-safe page frames
> > during the resume and uses them for restoring the suspend image (the same
> > approach is used on x86-64).
> >
> > It has been tested on an i386 system with PAE and survived several
> > suspend-resume cycles in a row, but I have no systems without PSE, so that
> > requires some testing.
>
> Thanks, looks okay to me. I guess Andi Kleen would be right person to
> review it in detail?

I gave it a quick skim, and saw nothing obviously broken fwiw.
Thanks for doing this work, it's definitly something that's needed.

Dave

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