Re: [PATCH] uswsusp: automatically free the in-memory image once s2disk has finished with it

Pavel Machek
2009-12-03T20:16:18Z

Hi!

> >>>>What's wrong with it? The hang is likely because the allocator has no
> >>>>memory to work with. The patch in question makes small changes to the
> >>>>amount of available memory but it shouldn't matter on uni-core. Some
> >>>>structures are slightly larger but it's extremely borderline. I'm at a
> >>>>loss to explain actually why it makes a difference untill things were
> >>>>extremely borderline to begin with.
> >>>We reserve 4MB, for such purposes, and we already wrote image to disk
> >>>with such constrains, so memory should not be _too_ tight.
> >>>
> >>>Can you try increasing PAGES_FOR_IO to 8MB or something like that?
> >>>
> >>What's wrong with just freeing the memory that is no longer required?
> >
> >Nothing. But 4MB was enough to power down before, it is not enough
> >now, and I'd like to understand why.
>
> Here's a new datum:
>
> Applying this patch has left a less frequent hang. So far it has
> happened twice. (Once playing last night, and once today testing
> hibernation with KMS enabled).
>
> This hang happens at a different point. It happens _before_ writing
> out the hibernation image. That is, I don't see the textual
> progress bar, and if I force a power-cycle then it doesn't resume
> (and complains about uncleanly unmounted filesystems).

Can you drop the patches, and try increasing PAGES_FOR_IO to 8MB? That
should give you enough memory...
Pavel

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