Re: [swsusp] Re: swsusp for 2.4.14

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:46:20 +0100


Hi!

> > Has anyone tried porting swsusp to user mode linux. That way you could
> > actually "suspend" a copy, resume it in parallel with the original and
> > compare the two memory images ?
>
> Alan,
> I got swsusp-2.4.13 (from Florent) to compile on User Mode Linux
> 2.4.13, with a couple of changes... it seems to suspend, but will not
> resume afterwards... just boots normally. Suspending doesn't seem to
> write the swsusp signature to the swap partition...
> I haven't gone any farther than that yet. I can provide a diff
> against uml-2.4.13 if anyone is interested in helping. :-)

Yep, I'd like to see it. [The way uml is setup with one uml kernel
running in *many* real processes, saving/restoring cpu state is not
going to be easy.]
Pavel

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