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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: Userland swsusp failure (mm-related)
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 18:15:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060408161555.GA1722@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604081716.31836.rjw@sisk.pl>

Hi!
 
> > This is my first (and unique) failure since I began testing uswsusp
> > (2.6.17-rc1 version). It happened (I think) because more than 50% of
> > physical memory was occupied at suspend time (about 550 megs out og
> > 1G) and that was what I was trying to test. After freeing some memory
> > suspend worked (there was no need to reboot).
> 
> Well, it looks like we didn't free enough RAM for suspend in this case.
> Unfortunately we were below the min watermark for ZONE_NORMAL and
> we tried to allocate with GFP_ATOMIC (Nick, shouldn't we fall back to
> ZONE_DMA in this case?).
> 
> I think we can safely ignore the watermarks in swsusp, so probably
> we can set PF_MEMALLOC for the current task temporarily and reset
> it when we have allocated memory.  Pavel, what do you think?

Seems little hacky but okay to me.

Should not fixing "how much to free" computation to free a bit more be
enough to handle this?
								Pavel
-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-08 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <b637ec0b0604080537s55e63544r8bb63c887e81ecaf@mail.gmail.com>
2006-04-08 15:16 ` Userland swsusp failure (mm-related) Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-08 16:15   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-04-08 22:47     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-08 23:24       ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-09 20:36         ` shrink_all_memory tweaks (was: Re: Userland swsusp failure (mm-related)) Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-09 23:23           ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-11 17:06             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-13 12:42               ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-13 13:54                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-13 14:01                   ` Con Kolivas
2006-04-09  1:51       ` Userland swsusp failure (mm-related) Nick Piggin
2006-04-11 21:33         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-11 21:36           ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-11 22:10             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-12  5:29               ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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