linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

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Date:	Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:02:06 +0200
From:	"Alon Bar-Lev" <alon.barlev@...il.com>
To:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	"Nigel Cunningham" <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, nigel@...pend2.net,
	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Jeremy Maitin-Shepard" <jbms@....edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	"Kexec Mailing List" <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

On 9/21/07, Huang, Ying <ying.huang@...el.com> wrote:
> This is fairly simple in fact. For example, you can specify the
> bdev/sectors in kernel command line when do kexec load "kexec -l <...>
> --append='...'", then the image writing system can get it through
> "cat /proc/cmdline".

I hope you take into account encrypted swap configuration.
Currently all three suspend implementations support using encrypted
swap in order to suspend/resume.
A configuration which forces the user to remap encryption on the kexec
kernel during suspend is not valid.

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.
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