linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]: Compress hibernation image with LZO (in-kernel)

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Date:	Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:14:19 +1000
From:	Bojan Smojver <bojan@...ursive.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...onice.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Compress hibernation image with LZO (in-kernel)

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 11:02 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> Then, after resume, all vmalloc() area is resumed as "allocated".
> 
> Wrong ? 

I actually tried remembering vmalloc() returned pointers into a global
variable as you suggested. On resume, they were always set to NULL,
which would suggest that what has gotten into the image was the state
before vmalloc() was called in save_image(). See:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/2/537.

Anyone else wants to comment here?

-- 
Bojan

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