linux-kernel - Re: in_suspend and _

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Date:	Fri, 1 May 2009 00:09:07 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Tim Abbott <tabbott@....edu>
Subject: Re: in_suspend and __nosave

On Thursday 30 April 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi Rafael & Linus.

Hi,

> While unifying vmlinux.lds for x86 I stumbled
> over the .data.nosave section.
> 
> Searching a bit I found only a single user:
> 
> swsusp.c:int in_suspend __nosavedata = 0;
> 
> Do we really needs all this complexity for this single integer?
> We have this section defined in several arch lds files.
> 
> I understand that in_suspend is special as in that we do not
> want the value restored while resuming.
> But is there no other way to do so today?

On x86-64 we can probably get rid of it, a little code rework is needed for
this purpose.  Unfortunately some more work is required to do the same
thing on x86-32.

> All I want is to kill a lot from the vmlinux.lds files.

Well, removing the __nosavedata is on my todo list, but not on the top of it.

> It also occur to me that only: x86, powerpc, and sh
> implement pfn_is_nosave() which I think is the only
> place where we decide if we want to save a page or not.
> 
> But we define the .data.nosave section in following
> architectures:
> arm, m32r, mips, mn10300, parisc, s390 in addition
> to the above archs that define pfn_is_nosave().
> Is this something to be cleaned up?

Yes, it is.

Thanks,
Rafael
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