Re: [RFT][PATCH 2/3] swsusp: introduce the swap map structure

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sun Nov 13 2005 - 17:32:23 EST


Hi,

On Sunday, 13 of November 2005 22:16, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > This patch introduces the swap map structure that can be used by swsusp for
> > keeping tracks of data pages written to the swap.  The structure itself is
> > described in a comment within the patch.
> >
> > The overall idea is to reduce the amount of metadata written to the swap
> > and to write and read the image pages sequentially, in a file-alike way.
> > This makes the swap-handling part of swsusp fairly independent of its
> > snapshot-handling part and will hopefully allow us to completely
> > separate these two parts in the future.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
>
> ACK.
>
> > +struct swap_map_handle {
> > + void *tfm; /* Needed for the encryption */
> > + struct swap_map_page *cur;
> > + unsigned int k;
> > +};
>
> I thought you killed encryption in 1/3?

And I thought so, but this one apparently survived ...

> > @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@
> >
> > #include "power.h"
> >
> > +struct pbe *pagedir_nosave = NULL;
> > +unsigned int nr_copy_pages = 0;
> > +
> > #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> > struct highmem_page {
> > char *data;
>
> You don't need to initialize to zero/NULL.

OK

I'll make the changes and post for inclusion into -mm in a couple of days.

Greetings,
Rafael
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