[RFC/RFT] swsusp: image size tunable (was: Re: [PATCH][mm] swsusp: limit image size)

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sat Dec 10 2005 - 08:20:23 EST


Hi,

On Friday, 9 December 2005 23:08, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
}-- snip --{
> > >
> > > This would at least give us a chance for a second try. I know that Pavel
> > > dislikes userspace tunables, but i dislike failing suspends ;-)
> >
> > Can we do that when we start seeing failed suspends? I think it will
> > not happen. If we have reasonably-sized swap partition, it should be
> > ok.
>
> Yes. Moreover, we can do something like that without a userspace
> tunable, if we check for the free swap before we try to shrink memory.
> This would take some time to implement, though, and I'd rather
> like to do the userland interface first.
>
> The tunable may be useful to people who'd like to achieve the
> maximum efficiency of suspend/resume and it would be a nice
> feature to have, I think, but let's say we'll try to implement it
> in the future, if still needed/wanted.

Actually the tunable turned out to be quite easy to implement and I think
I'll need it for userspace swsusp (the suspend-handling userspace
process will need to tell the kernel how much space there is for the
image).

Please give it a try.

Greetings,
Rafael


Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>

kernel/power/disk.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/power/power.h | 6 ++++--
kernel/power/swsusp.c | 4 +++-
3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1/kernel/power/disk.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1.orig/kernel/power/disk.c 2005-12-10 13:12:18.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1/kernel/power/disk.c 2005-12-10 13:20:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -367,9 +367,34 @@

power_attr(resume);

+static ssize_t image_size_show(struct subsystem * subsys, char *buf)
+{
+ return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", image_size);
+}
+
+static ssize_t image_size_store(struct subsystem * subsys, const char * buf, size_t n)
+{
+ int len;
+ char *p;
+ unsigned int size;
+
+ p = memchr(buf, '\n', n);
+ len = p ? p - buf : n;
+
+ if (sscanf(buf, "%u", &size) == 1) {
+ image_size = size < MAX_IMAGE_SIZE ? size : MAX_IMAGE_SIZE;
+ return n;
+ }
+
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+
+power_attr(image_size);
+
static struct attribute * g[] = {
&disk_attr.attr,
&resume_attr.attr,
+ &image_size_attr.attr,
NULL,
};

Index: linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1/kernel/power/power.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1.orig/kernel/power/power.h 2005-12-10 13:12:18.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1/kernel/power/power.h 2005-12-10 13:20:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -53,10 +53,12 @@
extern struct pbe *pagedir_nosave;

/*
- * Preferred image size in MB (set it to zero to get the smallest
+ * Maximum image size in MB (set it to zero to get the smallest
* image possible)
*/
-#define IMAGE_SIZE 500
+#define MAX_IMAGE_SIZE 500
+
+extern unsigned int image_size;

extern asmlinkage int swsusp_arch_suspend(void);
extern asmlinkage int swsusp_arch_resume(void);
Index: linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1/kernel/power/swsusp.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1.orig/kernel/power/swsusp.c 2005-12-10 13:12:18.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1/kernel/power/swsusp.c 2005-12-10 13:20:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@

#include "power.h"

+unsigned int image_size = MAX_IMAGE_SIZE;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
unsigned int count_highmem_pages(void);
int save_highmem(void);
@@ -647,7 +649,7 @@
if (!tmp)
return -ENOMEM;
pages += tmp;
- } else if (size > (IMAGE_SIZE * 1024 * 1024) / PAGE_SIZE) {
+ } else if (size > (image_size * 1024 * 1024) / PAGE_SIZE) {
tmp = shrink_all_memory(SHRINK_BITE);
pages += tmp;
}
-
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