Re: [PATCH v11]: Hibernation: fix the number of pages used for hibernate/thaw buffering

[Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com>]

On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 23:59 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Please resend it with a better changelog.  I mean, please explain what
> the regression is and why it is being fixed this way. 

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Hibernation regression fix, since 3.2.

Calculate the number of required free pages based on non-high memory
pages only, because that is where the buffers will come from.

Commit 081a9d043c983f161b78fdc4671324d1342b86bc introduced a new buffer
page allocation logic during hibernation, in order to improve the
performance. The amount of pages allocated was calculated based on total
amount of pages available, although only non-high memory pages are
usable for this purpose. This caused hibernation code to attempt to over
allocate pages on platforms that have high memory, which led to hangs.

A more elaborate patch, which also addressed other hibernation/thaw
issues, has been merged into linux-next, commit
e9cbc5a6270be7aa9c42d9b15293ba9ac7161262.

Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com>
---
 kernel/power/swap.c |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/power/swap.c b/kernel/power/swap.c
index 8742fd0..fdf834f 100644
--- a/kernel/power/swap.c
+++ b/kernel/power/swap.c
@@ -51,6 +51,23 @@
 
 #define MAP_PAGE_ENTRIES	(PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(sector_t) - 1)
 
+/*
+ * Number of free pages that are not high.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long low_free_pages(void)
+{
+	return nr_free_pages() - nr_free_highpages();
+}
+
+/*
+ * Number of pages required to be kept free while writing the image. Always
+ * half of all available low pages before the writing starts.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long reqd_free_pages(void)
+{
+	return low_free_pages() / 2;
+}
+
 struct swap_map_page {
 	sector_t entries[MAP_PAGE_ENTRIES];
 	sector_t next_swap;
@@ -72,7 +89,7 @@ struct swap_map_handle {
 	sector_t cur_swap;
 	sector_t first_sector;
 	unsigned int k;
-	unsigned long nr_free_pages, written;
+	unsigned long reqd_free_pages;
 	u32 crc32;
 };
 
@@ -316,8 +333,7 @@ static int get_swap_writer(struct swap_map_handle *handle)
 		goto err_rel;
 	}
 	handle->k = 0;
-	handle->nr_free_pages = nr_free_pages() >> 1;
-	handle->written = 0;
+	handle->reqd_free_pages = reqd_free_pages();
 	handle->first_sector = handle->cur_swap;
 	return 0;
 err_rel:
@@ -352,11 +368,11 @@ static int swap_write_page(struct swap_map_handle *handle, void *buf,
 		handle->cur_swap = offset;
 		handle->k = 0;
 	}
-	if (bio_chain && ++handle->written > handle->nr_free_pages) {
+	if (bio_chain && low_free_pages() <= handle->reqd_free_pages) {
 		error = hib_wait_on_bio_chain(bio_chain);
 		if (error)
 			goto out;
-		handle->written = 0;
+		handle->reqd_free_pages = reqd_free_pages();
 	}
  out:
 	return error;
@@ -618,7 +634,7 @@ static int save_image_lzo(struct swap_map_handle *handle,
 	 * Adjust number of free pages after all allocations have been done.
 	 * We don't want to run out of pages when writing.
 	 */
-	handle->nr_free_pages = nr_free_pages() >> 1;
+	handle->reqd_free_pages = reqd_free_pages();
 
 	/*
 	 * Start the CRC32 thread.
---------------------------------------

-- 
Bojan