Re: [PATCH 12/19] PM/Suspend: Do not shrink memory before suspend
From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jun 12 2009 - 07:02:56 EST
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.
Pavel
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