[Suspend2][ 7/9] [Suspend2] Relocate a piece of memory if required.

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Mon Jun 26 2006 - 19:38:18 EST


Given an address and size (never more than a page and never overlapping
page boundaries), relocate the data to an address that can be safely used
during the atomic restore if that relocation is necessary. The memory to be
freed might be slab or a normal page.

Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

kernel/power/pagedir.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/power/pagedir.c b/kernel/power/pagedir.c
index 4cdc0ef..ec75e79 100644
--- a/kernel/power/pagedir.c
+++ b/kernel/power/pagedir.c
@@ -288,3 +288,23 @@ unsigned long suspend_get_nonconflicting
return (unsigned long) page_address(page);
}

+/* relocate_page_if_required
+ *
+ * Description: Given the address of a pointer to a page, we check if the page
+ * needs relocating and do so if needs be, adjusting the pointer
+ * too.
+ */
+
+void suspend_relocate_if_required(unsigned long *current_value, unsigned int size)
+{
+ if (PagePageset1(virt_to_page(*current_value))) {
+ unsigned long new_page = suspend_get_nonconflicting_page();
+ memcpy((char *) new_page, (char *) *current_value, size);
+ if (PageSlab(virt_to_page(*current_value)))
+ kfree((void *) *current_value);
+ else
+ free_page((unsigned long) *current_value);
+ *current_value = new_page;
+ }
+}
+

--
Nigel Cunningham nigel at suspend2 dot net
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