linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] swsusp: Stop using page flags

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Message-Id: <1173610325.5182.1.camel@lappy>
Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:52:05 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...uxmail.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] swsusp: Stop using page flags

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 11:17 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The following three patches make swsusp use its own data structures for memory
> management instead of special page flags.  Thus the page flags used so far by
> swsusp (PG_nosave, PG_nosave_free) can be used for other purposes and I believe
> there are some urgend needs of them. :-)
> 
> Last week I sent these patches to the linux-pm and linux-mm lists and there
> were no negative comments.  Also I've been testing them on my x86_64 boxes for
> a few days and apparently they don't break anything.  I think they can go into
> -mm for testing.
> 
> Comments are welcome.

These patches have my blessing, they look good to me, but I'm not much
involved with the swsusp code, so I won't ACK them.

Again, thanks a bunch for freeing up 2 page flags :-)

Peter

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