From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264364AbTDXAsA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:48:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264370AbTDXAsA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:48:00 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:18050 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264364AbTDXAr7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:47:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:49:33 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Pavel Machek cc: "Grover, Andrew" , Nigel Cunningham , Marc Giger , Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP Message-ID: <1608070000.1051145373@flay> In-Reply-To: <20030424002551.GA2980@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20030424000344.GC32577@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <1592050000.1051142225@flay> <20030424002551.GA2980@elf.ucw.cz> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> OK ... but at least having the *option* to have a separate reserved >> area would be nice, no? For most people, RAM is just a tiny amount >> of their disk space ... and damn, does it make the code simpler ;-) > > If it is an *option*, it does not make code simpler. > > And OOM-killing during suspend is just what you want. It makes suspend > deterministic but it might kill someone. [Well, your solution would > kill him sooner than that...] OK, fair enough. I like the "activate the spare swap blob" plan. Seems like the best of both worlds ... people can use files or partitions, and all the code is already there. M.