Re: shrinking memory for suspend?

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On Thursday, 3 May 2007 12:34, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki writes:
> 
> > I think that on a uniprocessor system it's quite safe, but on SMP it doesn't
> > seem so.  For example, imagine the situation in which one CPU is executing the
> > suspend code while another one is running userspace with system calls etc.
> > Pretty scary.
> 
> Which is why the powermac/powerbook sleep code insists on there only
> being one cpu active.  I have an SMP powermac which can sleep; I use a
> little script to take the second cpu down before sleeping and bring it
> back up after waking up.

That's quite intrusive.  Ideally, user space processes should not notice that
there have been a suspend at one point.

Greetings,
Rafael
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