Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] PM: hibernate: shrink shmem pages after dev_pm_ops.prepare()

[Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>]

On 7/9/2025 6:05 AM, Samuel Zhang wrote:
> When hibernate with data center dGPUs, huge number of VRAM data will be
> moved to shmem during dev_pm_ops.prepare(). These shmem pages take a lot
> of system memory so that there's no enough free memory for creating the
> hibernation image. This will cause hibernation fail and abort.
> 
> After dev_pm_ops.prepare(), call shrink_all_memory() to force move shmem
> pages to swap disk and reclaim the pages, so that there's enough system
> memory for hibernation image and less pages needed to copy to the image.
> 
> This patch can only flush and free about half shmem pages. It will be
> better to flush and free more pages, even all of shmem pages, so that
> there're less pages to be copied to the hibernation image and the overall
> hibernation time can be reduced.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Zhang <guoqing.zhang@amd.com>
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>

What is your base for this patch?  I wanted to get it tested but I tried 
on top of the latest 6.16-rc as well as linux-next but couldn't apply it 
on either.

I suspect you're missing both 12ffc3b1513ebc1f11ae77d053948504a94a68a6 
and e9cec4487cb789645a8c84b13a9ce54c2d89e3bb in your base.

Could you please rebase on something newer?

> ---
>   kernel/power/hibernate.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/power/hibernate.c b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
> index 10a01af63a80..7ae9d9a7aa1d 100644
> --- a/kernel/power/hibernate.c
> +++ b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
> @@ -370,6 +370,23 @@ static int create_image(int platform_mode)
>   	return error;
>   }
>   
> +static void shrink_shmem_memory(void)
> +{
> +	struct sysinfo info;
> +	unsigned long nr_shmem_pages, nr_freed_pages;
> +
> +	si_meminfo(&info);
> +	nr_shmem_pages = info.sharedram; /* current page count used for shmem */
> +	/*
> +	 * The intent is to reclaim all shmem pages. Though shrink_all_memory() can
> +	 * only reclaim about half of them, it's enough for creating the hibernation
> +	 * image.
> +	 */
> +	nr_freed_pages = shrink_all_memory(nr_shmem_pages);
> +	pr_debug("requested to reclaim %lu shmem pages, actually freed %lu pages\n",
> +			nr_shmem_pages, nr_freed_pages);
> +}
> +
>   /**
>    * hibernation_snapshot - Quiesce devices and create a hibernation image.
>    * @platform_mode: If set, use platform driver to prepare for the transition.
> @@ -411,6 +428,15 @@ int hibernation_snapshot(int platform_mode)
>   		goto Thaw;
>   	}
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * Device drivers may move lots of data to shmem in dpm_prepare(). The shmem
> +	 * pages will use lots of system memory, causing hibernation image creation
> +	 * fail due to insufficient free memory.
> +	 * This call is to force flush the shmem pages to swap disk and reclaim
> +	 * the system memory so that image creation can succeed.
> +	 */
> +	shrink_shmem_memory();
> +
>   	suspend_console();
>   	pm_restrict_gfp_mask();
>