Re: [PATCH][RFC] PM / Hibernate: Feed NMI wathdog when creating snapshot

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Aug 15 2017 - 08:41:27 EST


On Tue 15-08-17 01:19:16, Chen Yu wrote:
[...]
> @@ -2561,8 +2562,10 @@ void mark_free_pages(struct zone *zone)
> unsigned long i;
>
> pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> - for (i = 0; i < (1UL << order); i++)
> + for (i = 0; i < (1UL << order); i++) {
> swsusp_set_page_free(pfn_to_page(pfn + i));
> + touch_nmi_watchdog();
> + }

this is rather excessive. Why don't you simply call touch_nmi_watchdog
once per every 1000 pages? Or once per free_list entry?

Moreover why don't you need to touch_nmi_watchdog in the loop over all
pfns in the zone (right above this loop)?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs