Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 12/12] PM / hibernate: update the resume offset on SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA

From: Pavel Machek <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 21:45:15 +0200

Hi!

> From: Aleksei Besogonov <[email-masked]>
> 
> The SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA is supposed to be used to set the hibernation
> offset on a running kernel to enable hibernating to a swap file.
> However, it doesn't actually update the swsusp_resume_block variable. As
> a result, the hibernation fails at the last step (after all the data is
> written out) in the validation of the swap signature in
> mark_swapfiles().
> 
> Before this patch, the command line processing was the only place where
> swsusp_resume_block was set.

Are you saying that suspend-to-file was broken, even on
non-virtualized systems?

If so, we may this to go in first...
								Pavel
								
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