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Commit: 5c9c9bec0589be696c70c5efb448b17d5ab720e2
Parent: 9484b1eb4d05957d3114dc63026448eb66106c06
Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Wed Jan 30 13:30:04 2008 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Wed Jan 30 13:30:04 2008 +0100
x86: hibernation: document __save_processor_state() on x86
Document the fact that __save_processor_state() has to save all CPU
registers referred to by the kernel in case a different kernel is
used to load and restore a hibernation image containing it.
Sigend-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/suspend_64.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
include/asm-x86/suspend_64.h | 9 ++++++++-
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/suspend_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/suspend_64.c
index 2e5efaa..569f1b5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/suspend_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/suspend_64.c
@@ -19,6 +19,21 @@ extern const void __nosave_begin, __nosave_end;
struct saved_context saved_context;
+/**
+ * __save_processor_state - save CPU registers before creating a
+ * hibernation image and before restoring the memory state from it
+ * @ctxt - structure to store the registers contents in
+ *
+ * NOTE: If there is a CPU register the modification of which by the
+ * boot kernel (ie. the kernel used for loading the hibernation image)
+ * might affect the operations of the restored target kernel (ie. the one
+ * saved in the hibernation image), then its contents must be saved by this
+ * function. In other words, if kernel A is hibernated and different
+ * kernel B is used for loading the hibernation image into memory, the
+ * kernel A's __save_processor_state() function must save all registers
+ * needed by kernel A, so that it can operate correctly after the resume
+ * regardless of what kernel B does in the meantime.
+ */
void __save_processor_state(struct saved_context *ctxt)
{
kernel_fpu_begin();
@@ -69,6 +84,11 @@ static void do_fpu_end(void)
kernel_fpu_end();
}
+/**
+ * __restore_processor_state - restore the contents of CPU registers saved
+ * by __save_processor_state()
+ * @ctxt - structure to load the registers contents from
+ */
void __restore_processor_state(struct saved_context *ctxt)
{
/*
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/suspend_64.h b/include/asm-x86/suspend_64.h
index c505a76..4404668 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/suspend_64.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/suspend_64.h
@@ -15,7 +15,14 @@ arch_prepare_suspend(void)
return 0;
}
-/* Image of the saved processor state. If you touch this, fix acpi/wakeup.S. */
+/*
+ * Image of the saved processor state, used by the low level ACPI suspend to
+ * RAM code and by the low level hibernation code.
+ *
+ * If you modify it, fix arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S and make sure that
+ * __save/__restore_processor_state(), defined in arch/x86/kernel/suspend_64.c,
+ * still work as required.
+ */
struct saved_context {
struct pt_regs regs;
u16 ds, es, fs, gs, ss;
-
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