Re: [PATCH] PM / hibernate: Image data protection during restoration

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Aug 05 2016 - 09:40:23 EST


On Tue 2016-07-05 14:34:38, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Make it possible to protect all pages holding image data during
> hibernate image restoration by marking them read-only (so as to
> catch attempts to write to those pages after image data have been
> stored in them).
>
> This adds overhead to image restoration code (it may cause large
> page mappings to be split as a result of page flags changes) and
> the errors it protects against should never happen in theory, so
> the feature is only active after passing hibernate=protect_image
> to the command line of the restore kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>

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