Re: [PATCH]: Compress hibernation image with LZO (in-kernel)

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On 04/08/10 12:24, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:24:57 +1000
> Nigel Cunningham<nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > Yes, because what's being written is the snapshot that was created in
> > hibernation_snapshot. Any memory you allocate afterwards is irrelevant
> > because it's not part of that snapshot that was made earlier and is now
> > being written to disk. Think of the point where hibernation_snapshot is
> > called as being like taking a photo, and this later part as like
> > printing the photo. Once you've taken the photo, people in the photo can
> > move around without making any difference to the photo you've taken. So
> > here. Our vmallocs and so on after the snapshot don't affect it.
>
> I see. I misunderstood  swsusp_save().
> Sorry for tons of noises.

No problem at all! You learn how it works and I get to make sure I do 
understand how it works! :)

Nigel
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