Re: Resume only part of device tree?

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 23:20:42 EST


Okay. I'll write it then. Thanks.

Nigel

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 16:57, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 11:48, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > My implementation saved the image in two parts. 'Pageset 2' contains the
> > LRU pages (active & inactive lists). 'Pageset 1' contains all other data
> > to be saved. At resume time, I read pageset 1 and copy the original
> > kernel data back. Then I want to resume the storage devices and read
> > pageset 2 before resuming all devices and waking everything else up. It
> > would also be good to not resume all devices when writing the state to
> > the swap partition, but I have other means of ensuring the consistency
> > of the image that mean I'm not so worried then.
>
> I don't see any good way to do that at this point. With a tree
> structure, it would be possible to revive only the parents of
> the storage device you are concerned in, but at this point, we
> don't have this possibility
>
> Ben.
>
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