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SubjectRe: swsusp: use non-contiguous memory on resume
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> Problem is that pagedir is allocated as order-8 allocation on resume
> in -mmX (and linus). Unfortunately, order-8 allocation sometimes
> fails, and for some people (Rafael, seife :-) it fails way too often.
>
> Solution is to change format of pagedir from table to linklist,
> avoiding high-order alocation. Unfortunately that means changes to
> assembly, too, as assembly walks the pagedir.

Ah.

> (Or maybe Rafael is willing to create -mm version and submit it
> himself?)

No, against -linus, please. But the chunk in kernel/power/swsusp.c looks
like it came from a diff between -mm and -linus. Or something.

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