linux-ext4 - Re: [linux-pm] Oops while going into hibernate

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Date:	Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:30:12 +1100
From:	Bojan Smojver <bojan@...ursive.com>
To:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org development" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Oops while going into hibernate

On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 13:46 -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> I'm still a bit concerned with the call to set the pages' PTE to be
> dirty that I found in the hibernate code, but I accept the fact that
> removing it doesn't solve the s390 crash.  It still seems wrong to me,
> and hopefully someone from linux-pm can look at that more closely. 

If I'm understanding things correctly, this should affect only the
situation when compression is not used. Otherwise, pages that are read
into by block I/O are decompressed first and copied into different
pages. No?

-- 
Bojan

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