Re: [PATCH 12/19] PM/Suspend: Do not shrink memory before suspend

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jun 12 2009 - 07:02:56 EST


On Thu 2009-06-11 22:39:03, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
>
> Remove the shrinking of memory from the suspend-to-RAM code, where
> it is not really necessary.

I still have not seen any explanation why it is not neccessary.

It is true that I did not have time to stress my system to the point
when it has 0 pages free, but we certainly know that it is possible,
and we know that at least one driver allocates memory and will be
broken if that happens.

NAK.
Pavel
--
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/