On Wed 14-07-21 09:51:13, David Hildenbrand wrote: [...] > Anyhow, the proposal here does not sound completely crazy to me, although > it's unfortunate how we decided to mangle hibernation and swapping into the > same mechanism originally; a different interface to active "hibernation only > backends" would be cleaner than doing a "swapon ..." without swapping. Completely agreed! And I suspect that a special swap flag just digs that hole even deeper. While the flag might look simple enough now I am a bit worried this will open traps in the future. I am not saying the idea is crazy either, it is just a hack on top of the existing hack and as such it requires a very good reasoning. So far I have heard rather vague justification and I am especially curious about the "no mixing with the regular swapout" concern. It might be very well the case that there are more usecases which would benefit from it. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
