Hi! > > I think, however, that we really should try to merge them. The only > > difference seems to be how the additionally allocated pages will be populated > > and what's going to happen to their contents during restore. > > > > ACPI will simply copy the NVS memory to those pages, while S390 will save > > the relevant storage key bits in there. > > One complication to keep in mind is that we need to know which storage key > goes to which page frame. We need something like the orig_bm/copy_bm or > we'd have to store the pfn with the key. Simply storing the key for every > page will make the array unnecessarily big. How big is the overhead? In percent / in megabytes? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
