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SubjectRe: Userland swsusp failure (mm-related)
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On Sunday 09 April 2006 08:47, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 08 April 2006 18:15, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > 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?
>
> Yes, but in that case we'll leave some memory unused. ;-)

How's the shrink_all_memory tweaks I sent performing for you Rafael? It may
theoretically be prone to the same issue but I tried to make it less likely.

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