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. ;-)
Rafael
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