Re: Hibernation Redesign

[Nick Piggin]

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > This is the Morton method, isn't it? :) I remember it sounding like a
> > very good idea when he brought it up, but I can't remember the details
> > of why it was rejected or what the problems were.
>
>
> Perhaps he did bring it up before I did.  Please forward me a link to
> the thread or other reference if you can find it, as I'd be interested
> in reading it.

Sent in the next mail.


> > I suspect that freeing memory on the fly for the new kernel
> > would be non-trivial (but possible), however simply having a reserve
> > RAM region for the new kernel would be fine for a first step.
>
>
> Freeing memory on the fly should be extremely easy for the kernel (this
> is precisely what it does when it needs to satisfy an allocation).  Note
> that the memory allocated need not be contiguous.

Yes, I have a rough idea about how page reclaim works. But I just
mean it would not be trivial to load the new kernel into physically
discontiguous memory. Possible of course, but I don't think kexec or
the setup code could quite cope ATM.

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