* Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > what's exactly in the hibernation image? Dirty data i suppose
>
> No, everything, including the kernel code, page tables etc. :-)
>
> > - but what about kernel-internal pages. What if we go from SLAB to
> > SLUB? What if the size of a structure changes? Etc.
>
> We can go from SLAB to SLUB just fine, it doesn't matter. The only
> thing that matters is we have to jump to the right address at the end
> of core_restore_code() (defined in arch/x86/kernel/suspend_asm_64.S).
ok, just to make sure we are talking about the same thing. Do you mean
we can restore an image saved by v2.6.12 into v2.6.24? I.e. a 2.6.24
kernel will be able to run a 2.6.12 kernel's hibernation image, with all
the kernel internal data from v2.6.12, etc? No way can that work.
Ingo
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