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

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Date:	Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:05:08 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Linux PM <linux-pm@...l.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...uxmail.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Make swsusp work on i386 with PAE

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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