From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swsusp: use bytes as image size units
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:22:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601240922.33637.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060123235642.GD6924@redhat.com>
On Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:56, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:32:26AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This patch makes swsusp use bytes as the image size units, which is needed
> > for future compatibility.
>
> With what ?
WIth the userland interface.
> I don't see how clipping this range to a maximum of 4GB
> will future-proof anything. What happens in a few years time when
> I want to suspend my 8GB laptop ?
We cannot create an image that's greater than 1/2 of RAM (in general)
or 1/2 of lowmem (on i386) anyway, but this does not limit the size of
RAM of a box you want to suspend. The rest of the RAM contents will
be swapped out before suspend.
Besides on x86-64 unsigned long is 64-bit, so it's not limited to 4 GB.
Greetings,
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-24 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-23 23:32 [PATCH] swsusp: use bytes as image size units Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-23 23:56 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-24 8:09 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-24 8:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2006-01-24 8:07 ` Pavel Machek
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