Re: swsusp status report

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue Jul 25 2006 - 11:10:26 EST


On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:25:14PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> V. Freeing memory
>
> Step (3) of the suspend procedure is completed by calling the same
> functions that are normally used by kswapd, but in a slightly different way.
> The part of swsusp responsible for that is referred to as 'the memory
> shrinker' and it may sometimes be called by the suspend-to-RAM code as well

This isn't actually necessary though is it ?
(Ie, it's a bug that needs fixing?)

Good write-up btw, it may even be a nice addition to Documentation/power/ ?

Dave

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