Re: [PATCH 2/3] swsusp: Do not use page flags

[Jiri Kosina]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > > And why _does_ suspend use GFP_ATOMIC all over the place?
> > Generally, because it cannot sleep.
> Why not?

I guess it's simply beucase of kswapd being already frozen, so there is no 
chance that once GFP_KERNEL allocation goes to sleep, it is going to get 
any free pages eventually ... ?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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