* [PATCH][Fix] swsusp: do not use memcpy for snapshotting memory
@ 2006-07-07 8:38 Rafael J. Wysocki
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From: Rafael J. Wysocki @ 2006-07-07 8:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: David Brownell, Pavel Machek, LKML
swsusp should not use memcpy for snapshotting memory, because on some
architectures memcpy may increase preempt_count. Then, as a result, wrong
value of preempt_count is stored in the image.
Replace memcpy in copy_data_pages with an open-coded loop.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
---
kernel/power/snapshot.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.17-mm6/kernel/power/snapshot.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17-mm6.orig/kernel/power/snapshot.c
+++ linux-2.6.17-mm6/kernel/power/snapshot.c
@@ -227,11 +227,17 @@ static void copy_data_pages(struct pbe *
for (zone_pfn = 0; zone_pfn < zone->spanned_pages; ++zone_pfn) {
if (saveable(zone, &zone_pfn)) {
struct page *page;
+ long *src, *dst;
+ int n;
+
page = pfn_to_page(zone_pfn + zone->zone_start_pfn);
BUG_ON(!pbe);
pbe->orig_address = (unsigned long)page_address(page);
- /* copy_page is not usable for copying task structs. */
- memcpy((void *)pbe->address, (void *)pbe->orig_address, PAGE_SIZE);
+ /* copy_page and memcpy are not usable for copying task structs. */
+ dst = (long *)pbe->address;
+ src = (long *)pbe->orig_address;
+ for (n = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(long); n; n--)
+ *dst++ = *src++;
pbe = pbe->next;
}
}
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