Re: swsusp: use non-contiguous memory on resume

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Friday, 4 of March 2005 12:52, Pavel Machek 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?
> > 
> > Just generate a patch series?
> 
> When #1 of the series is already in -mm? Okay, I guess we can do that.

Can I?

Rafael


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