Re: [PATCH v2] mm: Enable suspend-only swap spaces

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Jul 27 2021 - 08:19:12 EST


On 27.07.21 14:04, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!

Let's take a look at hibernate() callers:

drivers/mfd/tps65010.c: calls hibernate() from IRQ contex, based on HW
event

No it does not. Look again.


Oh, dead code :)

kernel/power/autosleep.c: calls hibernate() when it thinks it might be
a good time to go to sleep

Ok, you are right, it is there. But I don't believe anyone uses this
configuration.

If it's dead code, we might want to look into deprecating and removing it. It was introduced around 2012:

https://lwn.net/Articles/479841/


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb