Hi,
On Monday, 7 of February 2005 15:27, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > The following patch is (yet) an(other) attempt to eliminate the need for
> > > using higher
> > > order memory allocations on resume. It accomplishes this by replacing
> > > the array
> > > of page backup entries with a list, so it is only necessary to allocate
> > > individual
> > > memory pages. This approach makes it possible to avoid relocating many
> > > memory
> > > pages on resume (as a result, much less memory is used) and to simplify
> > > the assembly code that restores the image.
> >
> > I have updated the resume patch to apply to the 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 kernel that
> > contains the suspend part and the x86_64-Speed-up-suspend patch. The patch
> > is only for x86-64 and i386.
> >
> > [Note: without this patch the resume process fails on my box ("out of
> > memory")
> > during every 7th - 8th suspend/resume cycle, on the average.]
Well, this doesn't depend on the previous patch, apparently. ;-)
> Pssst. At this point, solution would be to revert the first part,
> too. 2.6.11 is too near to do anything else.
Oh, I didn't mean changing anything now (eg because of the missing ppc
assembly part). However, the patch is useful for me so I thought I'd post it
in case someone else (using the -mm kernels) needed it.
Greets,
Rafael
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