Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752536AbXLION2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 09:13:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750797AbXLIONV (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 09:13:21 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:42923 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750712AbXLIONU (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 09:13:20 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: bbpetkov@yahoo.de Subject: Re: [RFC] swap image signature check upon resume Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 15:32:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20071206211335.GA4923@gollum.tnic> <20071209065559.GA4627@gollum.tnic> <200712091527.57523.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <200712091527.57523.rjw@sisk.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712091532.28417.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2360 Lines: 46 On Sunday, 9 of December 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, 9 of December 2007, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:50:33PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Saturday, 8 of December 2007, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:19:09PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > > > > > Well, there's a patchset in the current mainline that allows you to use > > > > > > > arbitrary (sufficiently new) kernel to load the image and then restore the > > > > > > > image kernel. So, you can hibernate 2.6.24-rc3 and use 2.6.24-rc2 to restore > > > > > > > it, for example. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm going to do that for i386 too. > > > > > > right, this is d307c4a8e826c44f9633bd3f7e60d0491e7d885a (Hibernation: Arbitrary > > > > > > boot kernel support - generic code), i should've seen that. What's the status of > > > > > > those bits, from a quick scan it seems they need some rewiring (Kconfig, e.g. > > > > > > CONFIG_ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER etc..) and arch-specific save and restore > > > > > > functions? > > > > > > > > > > No, this code is fully functional. :-) > > > > > > > > > > The arch save and restore functions are in arch/x86/kernel/suspend_64.c . > > > > > > > > > > As I said, i386 is not yet supported. > > > > > > > > nice, holler if you need a tester when you have some prototypes ready. By the way, > > > > what do you do when the suspend image header mismatches and it is unsafe to continue booting? > > > > > > If the image header doesn't match, we don't load it and return an error code, > > > which usually results in the boot kernel continuing to boot. > > > > But if you continue to boot the filesystems were still mounted and fsck has to > > go over them and check for errors. In the case of ext2 this takes relatively > > long depending on the size of the partition. However, this is only the > > smaller problem, the problem of data loss is what worries me. > > The filesystems are synced before the hibernation, so there shouldn't be data > any loss. s/data any loss/any data loss/ (sorry). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/