Re: Question about hibernation

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Am Freitag, 18. März 2011, 14:45:24 schrieb Raj Kumar:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have following question regarding the hibernation. If a device driver uses dedicated memory (dedicated memory in linux which is not OS addressable e.g. device driver is using some pages from dedicated memory), When the system hibernates, will this be responsibility of device driver to save this area 
> or 
> OS hibernation procedure save this area of ram (dedicated memory area) into swap image?

If you got it from get_free_pages (at the end of a long call chain) the
kernel saves it. If not, it is your problem.

	HTH
		Oliver
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