Re: swsusp: use non-contiguous memory on resume

[Andrew Morton]

Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> 
> > > Problem is that pagedir is allocated as order-8 allocation on resume
> > >  in -mmX (and linus). Unfortunately, order-8 allocation sometimes
> > >  fails, and for some people (Rafael, seife :-) it fails way too often.
> > > 
> > >  Solution is to change format of pagedir from table to linklist,
> > >  avoiding high-order alocation. Unfortunately that means changes to
> > >  assembly, too, as assembly walks the pagedir.
> > 
> > Ah.
> > 
> > >  (Or maybe Rafael is willing to create -mm version and submit it
> > >  himself?)
> > 
> > No, against -linus, please.  But the chunk in kernel/power/swsusp.c looks
> > like it came from a diff between -mm and -linus.  Or something.
> 
> Yes, I did diff between -mm and -pavel, sorry.
> 
> But I can't easily generate diff against -linus because that one is
> dependend on fixing order-8 allocations during suspend. So I guess
> I'll just wait until that one propagates into -linus?
> 								Pavel

Just generate a patch series?
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