1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/power/Kconfig b/kernel/power/Kconfig
index ae44a70aae8a..619ecabf7c58 100644
--- a/kernel/power/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/power/Kconfig
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ config PM_TRACE
 
 config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
         bool "Software Suspend"
-        depends on PM && SWAP && (X86 && (!SMP || SUSPEND_SMP)) || ((FRV || PPC32) && !SMP)
+        depends on PM && SWAP && ((X86 && (!SMP || SUSPEND_SMP) && !X86_PAE) || ((FRV || PPC32) && !SMP))
         ---help---
           Enable the possibility of suspending the machine.
           It doesn't need ACPI or APM.
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
 
           For more information take a look at <file:Documentation/power/swsusp.txt>.
 
+          (For now, swsusp is incompatible with PAE aka HIGHMEM_64G on i386.
+          we need identity mapping for resume to work, and that is trivial
+          to get with 4MB pages, but less than trivial on PAE).
+
 config PM_STD_PARTITION
         string "Default resume partition"
         depends on SOFTWARE_SUSPEND