This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled PM / Hibernate: Avoid hitting OOM during preallocation of memory
to the 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: pm-hibernate-avoid-hitting-oom-during-preallocation-of-memory.patch and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm tree, please let <sta...@kernel.org> know about it. >From 6715045ddc7472a22be5e49d4047d2d89b391f45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <r...@sisk.pl> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:58:27 +0200 Subject: PM / Hibernate: Avoid hitting OOM during preallocation of memory From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <r...@sisk.pl> commit 6715045ddc7472a22be5e49d4047d2d89b391f45 upstream. There is a problem in hibernate_preallocate_memory() that it calls preallocate_image_memory() with an argument that may be greater than the total number of available non-highmem memory pages. If that's the case, the OOM condition is guaranteed to trigger, which in turn can cause significant slowdown to occur during hibernation. To avoid that, make preallocate_image_memory() adjust its argument before calling preallocate_image_pages(), so that the total number of saveable non-highem pages left is not less than the minimum size of a hibernation image. Change hibernate_preallocate_memory() to try to allocate from highmem if the number of pages allocated by preallocate_image_memory() is too low. Modify free_unnecessary_pages() to take all possible memory allocation patterns into account. Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <r...@sisk.pl> Tested-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <bic...@superonline.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de> --- kernel/power/snapshot.c | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/power/snapshot.c +++ b/kernel/power/snapshot.c @@ -1120,9 +1120,19 @@ static unsigned long preallocate_image_p return nr_alloc; } -static unsigned long preallocate_image_memory(unsigned long nr_pages) +static unsigned long preallocate_image_memory(unsigned long nr_pages, + unsigned long avail_normal) { - return preallocate_image_pages(nr_pages, GFP_IMAGE); + unsigned long alloc; + + if (avail_normal <= alloc_normal) + return 0; + + alloc = avail_normal - alloc_normal; + if (nr_pages < alloc) + alloc = nr_pages; + + return preallocate_image_pages(alloc, GFP_IMAGE); } #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM @@ -1168,15 +1178,22 @@ static inline unsigned long preallocate_ */ static void free_unnecessary_pages(void) { - unsigned long save_highmem, to_free_normal, to_free_highmem; + unsigned long save, to_free_normal, to_free_highmem; - to_free_normal = alloc_normal - count_data_pages(); - save_highmem = count_highmem_pages(); - if (alloc_highmem > save_highmem) { - to_free_highmem = alloc_highmem - save_highmem; + save = count_data_pages(); + if (alloc_normal >= save) { + to_free_normal = alloc_normal - save; + save = 0; + } else { + to_free_normal = 0; + save -= alloc_normal; + } + save += count_highmem_pages(); + if (alloc_highmem >= save) { + to_free_highmem = alloc_highmem - save; } else { to_free_highmem = 0; - to_free_normal -= save_highmem - alloc_highmem; + to_free_normal -= save - alloc_highmem; } memory_bm_position_reset(©_bm); @@ -1257,7 +1274,7 @@ int hibernate_preallocate_memory(void) { struct zone *zone; unsigned long saveable, size, max_size, count, highmem, pages = 0; - unsigned long alloc, save_highmem, pages_highmem; + unsigned long alloc, save_highmem, pages_highmem, avail_normal; struct timeval start, stop; int error; @@ -1294,6 +1311,7 @@ int hibernate_preallocate_memory(void) else count += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); } + avail_normal = count; count += highmem; count -= totalreserve_pages; @@ -1308,12 +1326,21 @@ int hibernate_preallocate_memory(void) */ if (size >= saveable) { pages = preallocate_image_highmem(save_highmem); - pages += preallocate_image_memory(saveable - pages); + pages += preallocate_image_memory(saveable - pages, avail_normal); goto out; } /* Estimate the minimum size of the image. */ pages = minimum_image_size(saveable); + /* + * To avoid excessive pressure on the normal zone, leave room in it to + * accommodate an image of the minimum size (unless it's already too + * small, in which case don't preallocate pages from it at all). + */ + if (avail_normal > pages) + avail_normal -= pages; + else + avail_normal = 0; if (size < pages) size = min_t(unsigned long, pages, max_size); @@ -1334,16 +1361,34 @@ int hibernate_preallocate_memory(void) */ pages_highmem = preallocate_image_highmem(highmem / 2); alloc = (count - max_size) - pages_highmem; - pages = preallocate_image_memory(alloc); - if (pages < alloc) - goto err_out; - size = max_size - size; - alloc = size; - size = preallocate_highmem_fraction(size, highmem, count); - pages_highmem += size; - alloc -= size; - pages += preallocate_image_memory(alloc); - pages += pages_highmem; + pages = preallocate_image_memory(alloc, avail_normal); + if (pages < alloc) { + /* We have exhausted non-highmem pages, try highmem. */ + alloc -= pages; + pages += pages_highmem; + pages_highmem = preallocate_image_highmem(alloc); + if (pages_highmem < alloc) + goto err_out; + pages += pages_highmem; + /* + * size is the desired number of saveable pages to leave in + * memory, so try to preallocate (all memory - size) pages. + */ + alloc = (count - pages) - size; + pages += preallocate_image_highmem(alloc); + } else { + /* + * There are approximately max_size saveable pages at this point + * and we want to reduce this number down to size. + */ + alloc = max_size - size; + size = preallocate_highmem_fraction(alloc, highmem, count); + pages_highmem += size; + alloc -= size; + size = preallocate_image_memory(alloc, avail_normal); + pages_highmem += preallocate_image_highmem(alloc - size); + pages += pages_highmem + size; + } /* * We only need as many page frames for the image as there are saveable Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.32 which might be from r...@sisk.pl are /home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32/queue-2.6.32/pm-hibernate-avoid-hitting-oom-during-preallocation-of-memory.patch /home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32/queue-2.6.32/pm-free-memory-bitmaps-if-opening-dev-snapshot-fails.patch /home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32/queue-2.6.32/pm-hibernate-fix-free_unnecessary_pages.patch _______________________________________________ stable mailing list stable@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable