Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:30:00 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | in_suspend and __nosave |
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Hi Rafael & Linus.
While unifying vmlinux.lds for x86 I stumbled over the .data.nosave section.
Searching a bit I found only a single user:
swsusp.c:int in_suspend __nosavedata = 0;
Do we really needs all this complexity for this single integer? We have this section defined in several arch lds files.
I understand that in_suspend is special as in that we do not want the value restored while resuming. But is there no other way to do so today?
All I want is to kill a lot from the vmlinux.lds files.
It also occur to me that only: x86, powerpc, and sh implement pfn_is_nosave() which I think is the only place where we decide if we want to save a page or not.
But we define the .data.nosave section in following architectures: arm, m32r, mips, mn10300, parisc, s390 in addition to the above archs that define pfn_is_nosave(). Is this something to be cleaned up?
Sam
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