Re: Fix memory leak in swsusp

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > At some stage, you copy the page that contains the preempt count for the
> > process that is doing the suspending. If you use memcpy on a 3Dnow machine,
> > the preempt count is incremented prior to doing the copy of the page. Then,
> > at resume time, it is one too high.
> 
> Well, if we know that it is one too high, why not decrement right after the 
> resume?

You are suggesting very dirty hack. See archives why it is basically
undoable.

									Pavel
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