Hi! > > This is preview of what I'm doing. I call it swsusp3 for the > > moment. Idea is to push image reading and writing to userspace, so it > > can be compressed, can have nice progress bar etc. > > > > In the current state I do not write image anywhere, and user <-> > > kernel interface is *very* ugly, but you get the idea. It should allow > > us to do most of stuff suspend2 does _and_ shrink kernel a bit at the > > same time. > > > > Warning: Preview only. Code is ugly and probably broken. > > Ummm... it's really hard to know what to say. I guess I'll just have to > wait and see how you progress. > > A few general comments: > > - I don't see any indication of support for storing a complete image of memory. Planning it? I was afraid you would ask. This is the area where I don't know how to do it cleanly. I could only free as much memory as strictly neccessary; that should leave pagecache "mostly intact". Perhaps that would be good enough? > - Aren't new syscalls generally viewed as pretty undesirable? Well, yes, they are, except when alternatives are worse. > - Should comments be in English? Is there some czech comment in there? Well code is very ugly at places, "first make it work, then make it cleaner". Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
