Re: [PATCH][mm] swsusp: limit image size

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Dec 09 2005 - 14:17:08 EST


Hi!

> >> What happens if IMAGE_SIZE is bigger than free swap? Do we "try harder"
> >> or do we fail?
> >
> > First, with swsusp the image can't be bigger than 1/2 of lowmem (1/2 of RAM
> > on x86-64) and the too great values of IMAGE_SIZE have no effect. Still, if
> > the amount of free swap is smaller than 1/2 of RAM and the image happens
> > to be bigger, we will fail.
>
> ok. This is not nice since we might fail without any _real_ need. Can we
> make this parameter userspace-tweakable, so that my userspace app can do
> something like (pseudocode):
>
> echo 500 > /sys/power/swsusp/imagesize
> echo disk > /sys/power/state
> R=$?
> if [ $R -eq $ENOMEM ]; then
> echo 100 > /sys/power/swsusp/imagesize # try again

You can do 'echo 0' -- as small as possible.

> echo disk > /sys/power/state
> R=$?
> fi
> if [ $R -ne 0 ]; then
> pop_up_some_loud_beeping_window "suspend failed!"
> fi
>
> 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.

Pavel
--
Thanks, Sharp!
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