Re: [PATCH 12/19] PM/Suspend: Do not shrink memory before suspend

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Jun 12 2009 - 15:04:48 EST


On Friday 12 June 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Thu 2009-06-11 22:39:03, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Remove the shrinking of memory from the suspend-to-RAM code, where
> > it is not really necessary.
>
> I still have not seen any explanation why it is not neccessary.
>
> It is true that I did not have time to stress my system to the point
> when it has 0 pages free, but we certainly know that it is possible,
> and we know that at least one driver allocates memory and will be
> broken if that happens.
>
> NAK.

Sorry, I'm going to let Linus decide about this one.

Best,
Rafael
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