Hi. On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 10:41, Pavel Machek wrote: > > non-RAM areas with PG_nosave, at least for sanity reasons (eg to be sure > > that > > we do not break things by dumping stuff to where we should not write to). > > I'm not sure if it is not better to save & restore non-RAM areas, but > it probably just does not matter.
IIRC, it does matter. I think there were situations where you got something nasty (MCE/oops/freeze) if you tried reading memory that doesn't exist. If you push me I'll put the effort into looking up suspend2 archives to find the discussion :> Regards, Nigel -- Nigel Cunningham Software Engineer, Canberra, Australia http://www.cyclades.com Bus: +61 (2) 6291 9554; Hme: +61 (2) 6292 8028; Mob: +61 (417) 100 574 Maintainer of Suspend2 Kernel Patches http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
