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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Userland swsusp failure (mm-related)
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:51:33 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <443868A5.1020503@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604090047.17372.rjw@sisk.pl>

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
> 

>>>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?
> 
> 
> Yes, but in that case we'll leave some memory unused. ;-)
> 

Probably doesn't fall back to ZONE_DMA because of lowmem reserve.
Yes, PF_MEMALLOC sounds like it might do what you want. A little
hackish perhaps, but better than putting swsusp special cases
into page_alloc.c.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-09  1:51 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
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       ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-04-11 21:33         ` Userland swsusp failure (mm-related) 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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