Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Don't explode on swsusp failure to find swap

[Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>]

Hi,
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 07:50 +0800, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 00:45 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 12:36 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: 
> > > Hi! 
> > >  
> > > > If we specify a swap device for swsusp using resume= kernel
> argument and 
> > > > that device doesn't exist in the swap list, we end up calling 
> > > > swsusp_free() before we have allocated pagedir_save. That causes
> us to 
> > > > explode when trying to free it. 
> > > >  
> > > > Pavel, does that look right ? 
> > >  
> > > It looks like a workaround. We should not call swsusp_free in
> case 
> > > device does not exists. Quick look did not reveal where the bug
> comes 
> > > from, can you try to trace it? 
> > >                                                             Pavel 
> >  
> > Well, the bug comes from arch code calling swsusp_save() which
> fails, 
> > then we call swsusp_free()
> 
> More specifically, arch suspend calls swsusp_save().
> 
> It fails and returns the error to the arch asm code, which itself 
> returns it to it's caller swsusp_suspend(), which does that:
> 
>         if ((error = swsusp_arch_suspend())) 
>                 swsusp_free();
I encounter a similar issue, when swsusp_swap_check failed.
It seems the swsusp_free isn't required in the failure case,
suspend_prepare_image has correctly handled the failure case to me.
Other arch? I wonder why swsusp_free is called after device_power_down
failed as well. No pages are allocated before device_power_down.

Thanks,
Shaohua