Re: [PATCH] Allow memory hotplug and hibernation in the same kernel

[KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>]

> (cc to goto-san)
> 
> > Allow memory hotplug and hibernation in the same kernel
> > 
> > Memory hotplug and hibernation was excluded in Kconfig. This is obviously
> > a problem for distribution kernels who want to support both in the same
> > image.
> 
> Sure.
> 
> This exclusion is nearly meaningless. if anybody remove cpu, memory and/or
> various peripheral from hibernated machine. the system might not resume.
> it's obvious. memory is not special.
> 
> Documentation/power/swsusp.txt explicitly said
> 
> 	 * BIG FAT WARNING *********************************************************
> 	 *
> 	 * If you touch anything on disk between suspend and resume...
> 	 *                              ...kiss your data goodbye.
> 
> 
> I like this patch.
> 
> 
> > 
> > After some discussions with Rafael and others the only problem is 
> > with parallel memory hotadd or removal while a hibernation operation
> > is in process. It was also working for s390 before.
> > 
> > This patch removes the Kconfig level exclusion, and simply
> > makes the memory add / remove functions grab the pm_mutex
> > to exclude against hibernation.
> > 
> > This is a 2.6.32 candidate.

2.6.32?




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