Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:08:03 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: swappiness=0 makes software suspend fail. |
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Hi!
> >>>btw, software suspend wrecks your swap partition if you suspend to swap > >>>but > >>>do not resume from swap - you need to run mkswap again. Seems odd. > >> > >>I think it's intentional, so that if you you boot to a different kernel > >>swapon -a won't automount the swap partition and hork your saved image. > > > > > >Actually, we *want* to hork that saved image, because it is extremely > >dangerous to resume from it. > > > >We also want to kill suspend signature ASAP, so that if driver kills > >resume and user presses reset, we will not try to resume again and > >fail in exactly same way.
> Suspend2 fixes the header and records when you've attempted to resume from > it. If you try a second time it gives you the option of invalidating the > image or trying to resume. Pavel, feel free to grab the code out of > suspend2 if you want.
It should be simpler to just move already-existing signature changing code to right place, but thanks anyway. Pavel
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