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From: "Michael Frank" <mhf@linuxmail.org>
To: "Pavel Machek" <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: "Andrea Arcangeli" <andrea@suse.de>,
	"Nigel Cunningham" <ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reserved page flaging of 2.4 kernel memory changed recently?
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:00:05 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <opr3l0mfdw4evsfm@smtp.pacific.net.th> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040219072629.GB467@openzaurus.ucw.cz>

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:26:30 +0100, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:

> Hi!
>

mhf wrote:

>> I actually would like to rename the bit PG_nosave to PG_donttouch ;)

to make a point with regard to:

	no transfer of page contents during suspend/resume
	no netdump
	no debugger access without override

... but the name does not matter and we do not have to change it.

>
> Its used for swsusp internal data, too...

Yes of course - how else would swsusp run, but these data are also not  
"touched"
during suspend and resume wrt transfer of page content.

x86 Pages for PG_nosave:

Video/BIOS 0xA0000-0XFFFFF
Anything reserved < max_pfn
Pentium 2 broken highmem pages
Driver specific areas in DMA zone are also thinkable

.. or else you get mce's or possibly crashes on newer x86 HW and on 64Bit  
for sure.
	- we had a mce recently at 0xa0000 on a Athlon XP and I went digging...

Regards
Michael

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-19  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-05  2:07 Michael Frank
2004-02-08  2:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-10 15:24   ` Michael Frank
2004-02-10 18:51     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-10 19:38       ` Michael Frank
2004-02-11  8:36       ` Michael Frank
2004-02-19  7:26     ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-19  9:00       ` Michael Frank [this message]
2004-02-19 16:14         ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-19 17:37           ` Michael Frank
2004-02-19 17:35             ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-19 17:59               ` Michael Frank

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