Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:10:44 +0200 |
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On Friday, 21 September 2007 11:49, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Seems like good enough for -mm to me. > > (For the record, I do not think this is going to be > hibernation-replacement any time soon. But it is functionality useful > for other stuff -- dump memory and continue -- and yes it may be able > to do hibernation in the long term. > > It really comes from the other side of reliability: > > * swsusp is "if your kernel is perfectly healthy, it will work" > > while this, coming from kdump is > > * "if your kernel is not completely trashed, it should work" > > ...which is why can't use swsusp to do dump memory and continue -- you > want to do dumps on "slightly broken" systems. And yes, as a > sideeffect it may be able to do hibernation... why not, lets see how > it works out).
I generally agree. :-)
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