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authorRainer Fiebig <jrf@mailbox.org>2017-12-22 11:13:59 +0100
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2018-01-05 14:46:25 +0100
commitbdbc98abb3aa323f6323b11db39c740e6f8fc5b1 (patch)
tree59a2b638f06ac896f3993c36953a2ea53cff5dcc /kernel/power
parent30a7acd573899fd8b8ac39236eff6468b195ac7d (diff)
downloadlinux-bdbc98abb3aa323f6323b11db39c740e6f8fc5b1.tar.bz2
PM: hibernate: Do not subtract NR_FILE_MAPPED in minimum_image_size()
s2disk/s2both may fail unnecessarily and erratically if NR_FILE_MAPPED is high - for instance when using VMs with VirtualBox and perhaps VMware Player. In those situations s2disk becomes unreliable and therefore unusable. A typical scenario is: user issues a s2disk and it fails. User issues a second s2disk immediately after that and it succeeds. And user wonders why. The problem is caused by minimum_image_size() in snapshot.c. The value it returns is roughly 100% too high because NR_FILE_MAPPED is subtracted in its calculation. Eventually the number of preallocated image pages is falsely too low. This doesn't matter as long as NR_FILE_MAPPED-values are in a normal range or in 32bit-environments as the code allows for allocation of additional pages from highmem. But with the high values generated by VirtualBox-VMs (a 2-GB-VM causes NR_FILE_MAPPED go up by 2 GB) it may lead to failure in 64bit-systems. Not subtracting NR_FILE_MAPPED in minimum_image_size() solves the problem. I've done at least hundreds of successful s2both/s2disk now on an x86_64 system (with and without VirtualBox) which gives me some confidence that this is right. It has turned s2disk/s2both from unusable into 100% reliable. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97201 Signed-off-by: Rainer Fiebig <jrf@mailbox.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/power')
-rw-r--r--kernel/power/snapshot.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/power/snapshot.c b/kernel/power/snapshot.c
index bce0464524d8..3d37c279c090 100644
--- a/kernel/power/snapshot.c
+++ b/kernel/power/snapshot.c
@@ -1645,8 +1645,7 @@ static unsigned long free_unnecessary_pages(void)
* [number of saveable pages] - [number of pages that can be freed in theory]
*
* where the second term is the sum of (1) reclaimable slab pages, (2) active
- * and (3) inactive anonymous pages, (4) active and (5) inactive file pages,
- * minus mapped file pages.
+ * and (3) inactive anonymous pages, (4) active and (5) inactive file pages.
*/
static unsigned long minimum_image_size(unsigned long saveable)
{
@@ -1656,8 +1655,7 @@ static unsigned long minimum_image_size(unsigned long saveable)
+ global_node_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON)
+ global_node_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_ANON)
+ global_node_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE)
- + global_node_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE)
- - global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED);
+ + global_node_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
return saveable <= size ? 0 : saveable - size;
}