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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface (rev 2)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:14:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060124111459.GA1650@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601240929.37676.rjw@sisk.pl>

On Út 24-01-06 09:29:37, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch introduces a user space interface for swsusp.
> 
> The interface is based on a special character device, called the snapshot
> device, that allows user space processes to perform suspend and
> resume-related operations with the help of some ioctls and the read()/write()
> functions.  Additionally it allows these processes to allocate free swap pages
> from a selected swap partition, called the resume partition, so that they know
> which sectors of the resume partition are available to them.
> 
> The interface uses the same low-level system memory snapshot-handling
> functions that are used by the built-it swap-writing/reading code of swsusp.
> 
> The interface documentation is included in the patch.
> 
> The patch assumes that the major and minor numbers of the snapshot device
> will be 10 (ie. misc device) and 231, the registration of which has already been
> requested.
> 
> Please apply (Pavel, please ack if it looks good).

ACK.
						Pavel

-- 
Thanks, Sharp!

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-24 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-24  8:29 [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface (rev 2) Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-24 11:14 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-01-24 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-24 21:30   ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-24 21:58     ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-24 22:14       ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-24 22:20         ` Dave Jones
2006-01-24 22:33           ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-24 22:38             ` Dave Jones
2006-01-24 22:44               ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-26  2:09                 ` Jim Crilly
2006-01-26  7:58                   ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-27  1:11                   ` Greg KH
2006-01-27  3:42                   ` Kay Sievers
2006-01-27 11:24                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-24 22:47               ` Lee Revell
2006-01-24 23:53         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-25  0:17           ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-25  0:31             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-24 23:35   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-25  2:46     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-25 10:50       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-25 12:18     ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-25 12:29       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-25 12:20     ` Pavel Machek

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