Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Help port swsusp to ppc. | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:06:21 +1100 |
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> (1) There's routine during resume that copies pages to their old > locations. If you (would want to) have different kernel during resume, > how do you guarantee that that "kernel being resumed" does not use > memory ocupied by copying routine?
By having the copy routine sit elsewhere. You can have the copy routine be in a known location of the kernel beeing resumed (that is it uses its own copy routine) that is aligned on a page boundary and knows how to copy itself. Fairly trivial.
> (2) Plus number of problems with devices grows with number of versions > squared. To guarantee it works properly you'd have to test all > combinations of "suspend kernel" and "resume kernel".
Why ? You aren't passing any device/driver information from the boot kernel and the resumed one... do you ?
> [(1) Could be solved by reserving 4KB somewhere for copy routine, and > making sure copy routine is never bigger than 4KB etc. But I'd like to > keep it simple and really don't want to deal with (2).]
Then you don't wnat to do things properly...
Ben.
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