Re: swsusp intermittent failures in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

Hi,

On Friday, 2 of December 2005 01:55, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > My Thinkpad X40 (1.25 GB, ipw2200) has had fairly reliable swsusp since
> > > 2.6.13 or thereabouts, and as recently as 2.6.15-rc1-mm1 I had about 20
> > > successful suspend/resume cycles.  But now that I'm running
> > > 2.6.15-rc3-mm1 I'm seeing intermittent failures like this:
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for the report.
> > 
> > The problem is apparently caused by my recent patch intended to speed up
> > suspend.  Could you please apply the appended debug patch, try to reproduce
> > the problem and send full dmesg output back to me?
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6.15-rc3-mm1/kernel/power/swsusp.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.15-rc3-mm1.orig/kernel/power/swsusp.c	2005-12-01 22:13:17.000000000 +0100
> > +++ linux-2.6.15-rc3-mm1/kernel/power/swsusp.c	2005-12-01 22:24:56.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -635,12 +635,18 @@
> >  	printk("Shrinking memory...  ");
> >  	do {
> >  #ifdef FAST_FREE
> > -		tmp = count_data_pages() + count_highmem_pages();
> > +		tmp = count_data_pages();
> > +		printk("Data pages: %ld\n", tmp);
> > +		tmp += count_highmem_pages();
> 
> You need at least count_data_pages() + 2*count_highmem_pages() free
> pages (in lowmem).

Do you mean a separate page is needed for each kmalloc() in
save_highmem_zone()?

Rafael


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