Re: [PATCH][Fix] Hibernation: Do not try to mark invalid PFNs as nosave

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> [Please consider as 2.6.23 material.]
> ---
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> 
> On some systems some PFNs reported by the early initialization code as 'nosave'
> may be invalid.  If we try to set the corresponding bits in the hibernation
> bitmap, BUG_ON() in memory_bm_find_bit() will be triggered and the system
> won't be able to boot  (cf. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=296242).
> 
> Prevent this from happening by verifying if the 'nosave' PFNs are valid in
> mark_nosave_pages().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

ACK.

> @@ -709,7 +709,8 @@ static void mark_nosave_pages(struct mem
>  				region->end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
>  
>  		for (pfn = region->start_pfn; pfn < region->end_pfn; pfn++)
> -			memory_bm_set_bit(bm, pfn);
> +			if (pfn_valid(pfn))
> +				memory_bm_set_bit(bm, pfn);
>  	}
>  }
>  

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