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Message-ID: <20071011205445.GA3975@ucw.cz>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:54:45 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@....edu>,
Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>, nigel@...pend2.net,
Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump
Hi!
> > That's certainly possible. We already pass a very small amount of data between
> > the boot and resuming kernels at the moment, and it's done quite simply - by
> > putting the variables we want to 'transfer' in a nosave page/section.
>
> Well, if the boot and image kernels are different, which is now possible on
> x86_64 with some recent patches (currently in -mm), the nosave trick won't
> work.
I guess we should remove the nosave.... at least from x86-64. If
someone tries to use it, he'll get a nasty surprise.
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