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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] swsusp: Do not use page flags
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:19:02 +0100 (CET)
Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > > > And why _does_ suspend use GFP_ATOMIC all over the place?
> > > Generally, because it cannot sleep.
> > Why not?
>
> I guess it's simply beucase of kswapd being already frozen, so there is no
> chance that once GFP_KERNEL allocation goes to sleep, it is going to get
> any free pages eventually ... ?

No, things should run fine with a dead kswapd.

There are reasons why we can't call into filesystems from there, but
GFP_NOIO will ensure that and it is heaps better than GFP_ATOMIC.



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