Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753339AbYCLC1Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:27:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752783AbYCLC1E (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:27:04 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:20488 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752622AbYCLC1C (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:27:02 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,483,1199692800"; d="scan'208";a="353418540" Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] kexec jump -v9 From: "Huang, Ying" To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Vivek Goyal , "Eric W. Biederman" , Pavel Machek , nigel@nigel.suspend2.net, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, Kexec Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200803112318.28120.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <1204773188.4707.109.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <20080311211004.GA30164@redhat.com> <200803112318.28120.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:26:28 +0800 Message-Id: <1205288788.29875.28.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Mar 2008 02:24:12.0508 (UTC) FILETIME=[2916F1C0:01C883E8] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1188 Lines: 28 On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 23:18 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 of March 2008, Vivek Goyal wrote: [...] > > Rafael/Pavel, does the approach of doing hibernation using a separate > > kernel holds promise? > > Well, what can I say? > > I haven't been a big fan of doing hibernation this way since the very beginning > and I still have the same reservations. Namely, my opinion is that the > hibernation-related problems we have are not just solvable this way. For one > example, in order to stop using the freezer for suspend/hibernation we first > need to revamp the suspending/resuming of devices (uder way) and the > kexec-based approach doesn't help us here. I wouldn't like to start another > discussion about it though. Yes. We need to work on device drivers for all hibernation implementations. And kexec-based hibernation provides a possible method to avoid freezer after driver works done. Best Regards, Huang Ying -- 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/