Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756073AbZDTTix (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:38:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753809AbZDTTin (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:38:43 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35155 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753517AbZDTTin (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:38:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:20:44 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Pavel Machek Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bug #13058] First hibernation attempt fails Message-Id: <20090420122044.7ea6cc15.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090407080632.GG1408@ucw.cz> References: <20090417063007.GB4593@kernel.dk> <49E83DC4.8040207@tuffmail.co.uk> <20090417091321.GP4593@kernel.dk> <20090407080632.GG1408@ucw.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1392 Lines: 28 On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:06:32 +0200 Pavel Machek wrote: > > And the thing is, that "swsusp_shrink_memory()" is just full of > > heuristics. There's no hard numbers there. It doesn't seem to wait for > > writeout, it just does the equivalent of "shrink_list()" and > > "shrink_slab()", but it seems to have been basically cribbed half-way > > from the regular "try to free memory", without really doing it all. > > akpm designed shrink_memory(). Long time ago it was just while (1) > kmalloc() loop. It should be waiting. Andrew? I always wanted the thing to just allocate all the memory which it needed and then to either return it all to the caller or free it all again for the caller to reallocate (preferably the former). But for some reason which I don't recall (Pavel provided it, iirc) that doesn't work. So the current (and subsequently tweaked) scheme was put in there instead. It turned out to be surprisingly difficult and ugly to graft it in top of the existing page reclaim code, and various changes were subsequently made to make it sort-of-work. Remind me: why can't we just allocate N pages at suspend-time? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/