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

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Date:	Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:24:44 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...onice.net>
Cc:	Bojan Smojver <bojan@...ursive.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Compress hibernation image with LZO (in-kernel)

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:24:57 +1000
Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...onice.net> wrote:

> Yes, because what's being written is the snapshot that was created in 
> hibernation_snapshot. Any memory you allocate afterwards is irrelevant 
> because it's not part of that snapshot that was made earlier and is now 
> being written to disk. Think of the point where hibernation_snapshot is 
> called as being like taking a photo, and this later part as like 
> printing the photo. Once you've taken the photo, people in the photo can 
> move around without making any difference to the photo you've taken. So 
> here. Our vmallocs and so on after the snapshot don't affect it.
> 

I see. I misunderstood  swsusp_save().
Sorry for tons of noises.

Thanks,
-Kame

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