On Tuesday 25 July 2006 17:11, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:25:14PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > V. Freeing memory > > > > Step (3) of the suspend procedure is completed by calling the same > > functions that are normally used by kswapd, but in a slightly different way. > > The part of swsusp responsible for that is referred to as 'the memory > > shrinker' and it may sometimes be called by the suspend-to-RAM code as well > > This isn't actually necessary though is it ? > (Ie, it's a bug that needs fixing?) Well, that depends on what FREE_PAGE_NUMBER, as defined in kernel/power/main.c, is for. Someone probably knows. [I'm tempted to remove it, though. ;-) ] > Good write-up btw, it may even be a nice addition to Documentation/power/ ? I'm going to update the existing docs soon, so it probably won't be needed. Still I think we can make it available from suspend.sf.net. Rafael
