Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] swsusp: Stop using page flags

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sun Mar 11 2007 - 06:52:39 EST


On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 11:17 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following three patches make swsusp use its own data structures for memory
> management instead of special page flags. Thus the page flags used so far by
> swsusp (PG_nosave, PG_nosave_free) can be used for other purposes and I believe
> there are some urgend needs of them. :-)
>
> Last week I sent these patches to the linux-pm and linux-mm lists and there
> were no negative comments. Also I've been testing them on my x86_64 boxes for
> a few days and apparently they don't break anything. I think they can go into
> -mm for testing.
>
> Comments are welcome.

These patches have my blessing, they look good to me, but I'm not much
involved with the swsusp code, so I won't ACK them.

Again, thanks a bunch for freeing up 2 page flags :-)

Peter

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