Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758308Ab0BRMyD (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:54:03 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f212.google.com ([209.85.218.212]:58911 "EHLO mail-bw0-f212.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754349Ab0BRMx7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:53:59 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=tMhbOTp2L/0uppWMbu2yeZ8t+LxYi09Ik8IE6hxYkKIxPdAu60IlYeuGA5tsbpvvma hzT87oxsI2uNiEuR/zz5gwGEQ90yCltYZGXgbEkQhMYEnkgwhw6546S6Rx5nrut0uJNH xh84fvybuN7I38bI0YIhT1juzFrmIhRbKH+zU= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201002172058.04043.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <9b2b86521001020703v23152d0cy3ba2c08df88c0a79@mail.gmail.com> <201002162216.30192.rjw@sisk.pl> <9b2b86521002170327m1f08ff73ncca9e5eff77b1966@mail.gmail.com> <201002172058.04043.rjw@sisk.pl> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:53:55 +0000 Message-ID: <9b2b86521002180453l176a83dand809dc239c220c08@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: s2disk hang update From: Alan Jenkins To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Mel Gorman , hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk, Pavel Machek , pm list , linux-kernel , Kernel Testers List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2754 Lines: 72 On 2/17/10, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Alan Jenkins wrote: >> On 2/16/10, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> > On Tuesday 16 February 2010, Alan Jenkins wrote: >> >> On 2/16/10, Alan Jenkins wrote: >> >> > On 2/15/10, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> >> >> On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Alan Jenkins wrote: >> >> >>> Perhaps I spoke too soon. I see the same hang if I run too many >> >> >>> applications. The first hibernation fails with "not enough swap" >> >> >>> as >> >> >>> expected, but the second or third attempt hangs (with the same >> >> >>> backtrace >> >> >>> as before). >> >> >>> >> >> >>> The patch definitely helps though. Without the patch, I see a hang >> >> >>> the >> >> >>> first time I try to hibernate with too many applications running. >> >> >> >> >> >> Well, I have an idea. >> >> >> >> >> >> Can you try to apply the appended patch in addition and see if that >> >> >> helps? >> >> >> >> >> >> Rafael >> >> > >> >> > It doesn't seem to help. >> >> >> >> To be clear: It doesn't stop the hang when I hibernate with too many >> >> applications. >> >> >> >> It does stop the same hang in a different case though. >> >> >> >> 1. boot with init=/bin/bash >> >> 2. run s2disk >> >> 3. cancel the s2disk >> >> 4. repeat steps 2&3 >> >> >> >> With the patch, I can run 10s of iterations, with no hang. >> >> Without the patch, it soon hangs, (in disable_nonboot_cpus(), as >> >> always). >> >> >> >> That's what happens on 2.6.33-rc7. On 2.6.30, there is no problem. >> >> On 2.6.31 and 2.6.32 I don't get a hang, but dmesg shows an allocation >> >> failure after a couple of iterations ("kthreadd: page allocation >> >> failure. order:1, mode:0xd0"). It looks like it might be the same >> >> stop_machine thread allocation failure that causes the hang. >> > >> > Have you tested it alone or on top of the previous one? If you've >> > tested it >> > alone, please apply the appended one in addition to it and retest. >> > >> > Rafael >> >> I did test with both patches applied together - >> >> 1. [Update] MM / PM: Force GFP_NOIO during suspend/hibernation and resume >> 2. "reducing the number of pages that we're going to keep preallocated by >> 20%" > > In that case you can try to reduce the number of preallocated pages even > more, > ie. change "/ 5" to "/ 2" (for example) in the second patch. It still hangs if I try to hibernate a couple of times with too many applications. Alan -- 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/