Hi!
> Use the ioctl defined in the previous patch to support the suspend to/resume
> from swap files.
>
> Introduce an additional configuration parameter "resume offset" that will
> allow us to specify the offset (in <PAGE_SIZE> units) at which the swap
> file's header is located. At the same time the "resume device" parameter
> must point to the partition device which holds the swap file.
>
> To determine the location of the swap header of a swap file we'll need a
> special application using the FIBMAP ioctl to bmap the file and find the
> header. There's no such application currently available, but I'm going to
> write (simple) one.
Looks okay to me.
Pavel
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