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Message-ID: <4C58D2AF.2070306@tuxonice.net>
Date:	Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:38:39 +1000
From:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...onice.net>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Bojan Smojver <bojan@...ursive.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Compress hibernation image with LZO (in-kernel)

Hi.

On 04/08/10 12:24, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> 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.

No problem at all! You learn how it works and I get to make sure I do 
understand how it works! :)

Nigel
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