Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:32:42 -0400
From: Jeff Sipek <jeffpc@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: Fix memory leak in swsusp
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To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, pavel@suse.cz,
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On Saturday 12 June 2004 18:07, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
> At some stage, you copy the page that contains the preempt count for the
> process that is doing the suspending. If you use memcpy on a 3Dnow machine,
> the preempt count is incremented prior to doing the copy of the page. Then,
> at resume time, it is one too high.

Well, if we know that it is one too high, why not decrement right after the 
resume?

Jeff.

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