Re: Suspend2 Merge: e820 table support.

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>]

Hi.

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 21:27, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hmm, it also contains (saveable()):
> 
>         BUG_ON(PageReserved(page) && PageNosave(page));

How do you cover those HighMem pages that get marked Reserved and are
unusable? (That's what the e820 logic was for, iirc. Think it was done
about February!). Not handling them resulted in MCEs when trying to do
the atomic copy or when restoring (seemed random).

> ..but that should be easy to kill. I'd be worried about this function:
> 
> static void free_suspend_pagedir_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long
> pagedir)
> {
>         unsigned long zone_pfn, pagedir_end, pagedir_pfn,
> pagedir_end_pfn;
>         pagedir_end = pagedir + (PAGE_SIZE << pagedir_order);
>         pagedir_pfn = __pa(pagedir) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>         pagedir_end_pfn = __pa(pagedir_end) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>         for (zone_pfn = 0; zone_pfn < zone->spanned_pages; ++zone_pfn)
> {
>                 struct page *page;
>                 unsigned long pfn = zone_pfn + zone->zone_start_pfn;
>                 if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
>                         continue;
>                 page = pfn_to_page(pfn);

Mmm. I should get around to using pfn_to_page. That's necessary for
discontig support, right? Haven't looked at that yet. (Yes, swsusp has
functionality suspend2 doesn't!) :>.

>                 if (!TestClearPageNosave(page))
>                         continue;
>                 else if (pfn >= pagedir_pfn && pfn < pagedir_end_pfn)
>                         continue;
>                 __free_page(page);
>         }
> }

Wow. This function is really hard to understand. Or maybe I'm really
ignorant :>. 

> I posted diff to get rid of it, but it did not get enough testing so
> it is not in mainline.
> 								Pavel

Regards,

Nigel
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