Re: [swsusp] Rework image freeing

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Sep 21 2005 - 23:59:29 EST


Hi,

On Thursday, 22 of September 2005 00:53, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday, 21 of September 2005 22:51, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Do not store pagedirs in swap twice. This needed rewrite of image
> > freeing, but it enabled me nice cleanups in the end.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> > commit 67434821951d6f10d55e29465a24e7f5015038f1
> > tree ee0f4a209e8b680ffdfa6e7837a3a248b524f421
> > parent 7bdc8fc378f053bd4eb4210beb1d494485318512
> > author <pavel@amd.(none)> Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:34:55 +0200
> > committer <pavel@amd.(none)> Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:34:55 +0200
> >
> > kernel/power/swsusp.c | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
> > 1 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/power/swsusp.c b/kernel/power/swsusp.c
> > --- a/kernel/power/swsusp.c
> > +++ b/kernel/power/swsusp.c
> > @@ -729,16 +729,6 @@ static void copy_data_pages(void)
> > BUG_ON(pbe);
> > }
> >
> > -
> > -/**
> > - * calc_nr - Determine the number of pages needed for a pbe list.
> > - */
> > -
> > -static int calc_nr(int nr_copy)
> > -{
> > - return nr_copy + (nr_copy+PBES_PER_PAGE-2)/(PBES_PER_PAGE-1);
> > -}
>
> I can't see why you are going to drop this function. Isn't it necessary any more?

OK, swsusp fails anyway when it cannot allocate a page, so in fact it is not.
However, the information printed in swsusp_alloc():

> /**
> * enough_free_mem - Make sure we enough free memory to snapshot.
> @@ -914,19 +895,23 @@ static int enough_swap(void)
>
> static int swsusp_alloc(void)
> {
> - int error;
> + struct pbe *p;
>
> pagedir_nosave = NULL;
> - nr_copy_pages = calc_nr(nr_copy_pages);
>
> pr_debug("suspend: (pages needed: %d + %d free: %d)\n",
> nr_copy_pages, PAGES_FOR_IO, nr_free_pages());

now seems to be inaccurate, because we likely need more pages than
nr_copy_pages + PAGES_FOR_IO.

Greetings,
Rafael


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