Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Dec 2010 16:37:21 -0800 (PST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PM / Hibernate: Fix memory corruption related to swap |
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On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 00:40:36 +0100 > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote: > > > > This patch is a fix for a regression and nasty memory corruption, so I'd like > > to push it to Linus for 2.6.37 if there are no objections.
(It will need backport to 2.6.35-stable and 2.6.36-stable: IIRC it doesn't quite apply cleanly to those, so we'll need to send a separate version.)
> > It looks OK to me for 2.6.37 but for 2.6.38 please let's make > everything here a 100% no-op for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n builds. > Specifically the slight overhead in __alloc_pages_nodemask.
I expect you're right that the CONFIG_PM would better be CONFIG__PM_SLEEP; but I think you misunderstand gfp_allowed_mask in __alloc_pages_nodemask: it came from slab & slub, to fix some early bootup issues, and predates Rafael's recent use of it in suspend and hibernation.
> > Because given the global nature of saved_gfp_mask and the unlocked way > in which it is accessed, this facility won't be at all useful for > anything other than suspend.
... and bootup.
Hugh
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