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<title>PM / Hibernate: Thaw processes in SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl test path</title>
<updated>2012-02-13T19:16:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2011-12-01T21:33:10+00:00</published>
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commit 97819a26224f019e73d88bb2fd4eb5a614860461 upstream.

Commit 2aede851ddf08666f68ffc17be446420e9d2a056 (PM / Hibernate: Freeze
kernel threads after preallocating memory) moved the freezing of kernel
threads to hibernation_snapshot() function.

So now, if the call to hibernation_snapshot() returns early due to a
successful hibernation test, the caller has to thaw processes to ensure
that the system gets back to its original state.

But in SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE hibernation ioctl, the caller does not thaw
processes in case hibernation_snapshot() returned due to a successful
freezer test. Fix this issue. But note we still send the value of 'in_suspend'
(which is now 0) to userspace, because we are not in an error path per-se,
and moreover, the value of in_suspend correctly depicts the situation here.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 97819a26224f019e73d88bb2fd4eb5a614860461 upstream.

Commit 2aede851ddf08666f68ffc17be446420e9d2a056 (PM / Hibernate: Freeze
kernel threads after preallocating memory) moved the freezing of kernel
threads to hibernation_snapshot() function.

So now, if the call to hibernation_snapshot() returns early due to a
successful hibernation test, the caller has to thaw processes to ensure
that the system gets back to its original state.

But in SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE hibernation ioctl, the caller does not thaw
processes in case hibernation_snapshot() returned due to a successful
freezer test. Fix this issue. But note we still send the value of 'in_suspend'
(which is now 0) to userspace, because we are not in an error path per-se,
and moreover, the value of in_suspend correctly depicts the situation here.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>PM / Hibernate: Improve performance of LZO/plain hibernation, checksum image</title>
<updated>2011-10-16T21:30:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bojan Smojver</name>
<email>bojan@rexursive.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-13T21:58:07+00:00</published>
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Use threads for LZO compression/decompression on hibernate/thaw.
Improve buffering on hibernate/thaw.
Calculate/verify CRC32 of the image pages on hibernate/thaw.

In my testing, this improved write/read speed by a factor of about two.

Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver &lt;bojan@rexursive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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Use threads for LZO compression/decompression on hibernate/thaw.
Improve buffering on hibernate/thaw.
Calculate/verify CRC32 of the image pages on hibernate/thaw.

In my testing, this improved write/read speed by a factor of about two.

Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver &lt;bojan@rexursive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<title>PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory</title>
<updated>2011-10-16T21:28:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-26T18:32:27+00:00</published>
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There is a problem with the current ordering of hibernate code which
leads to deadlocks in some filesystems' memory shrinkers.  Namely,
some filesystems use freezable kernel threads that are inactive when
the hibernate memory preallocation is carried out.  Those same
filesystems use memory shrinkers that may be triggered by the
hibernate memory preallocation.  If those memory shrinkers wait for
the frozen kernel threads, the hibernate process deadlocks (this
happens with XFS, for one example).

Apparently, it is not technically viable to redesign the filesystems
in question to avoid the situation described above, so the only
possible solution of this issue is to defer the freezing of kernel
threads until the hibernate memory preallocation is done, which is
implemented by this change.

Unfortunately, this requires the memory preallocation to be done
before the "prepare" stage of device freeze, so after this change the
only way drivers can allocate additional memory for their freeze
routines in a clean way is to use PM notifiers.

Reported-by: Christoph &lt;cr2005@u-club.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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There is a problem with the current ordering of hibernate code which
leads to deadlocks in some filesystems' memory shrinkers.  Namely,
some filesystems use freezable kernel threads that are inactive when
the hibernate memory preallocation is carried out.  Those same
filesystems use memory shrinkers that may be triggered by the
hibernate memory preallocation.  If those memory shrinkers wait for
the frozen kernel threads, the hibernate process deadlocks (this
happens with XFS, for one example).

Apparently, it is not technically viable to redesign the filesystems
in question to avoid the situation described above, so the only
possible solution of this issue is to defer the freezing of kernel
threads until the hibernate memory preallocation is done, which is
implemented by this change.

Unfortunately, this requires the memory preallocation to be done
before the "prepare" stage of device freeze, so after this change the
only way drivers can allocate additional memory for their freeze
routines in a clean way is to use PM notifiers.

Reported-by: Christoph &lt;cr2005@u-club.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PM / Hibernate: Add sysfs knob to control size of memory for drivers</title>
<updated>2011-05-17T21:19:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-15T09:38:48+00:00</published>
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Martin reports that on his system hibernation occasionally fails due
to the lack of memory, because the radeon driver apparently allocates
too much of it during the device freeze stage.  It turns out that the
amount of memory allocated by radeon during hibernation (and
presumably during system suspend too) depends on the utilization of
the GPU (e.g. hibernating while there are two KDE 4 sessions with
compositing enabled causes radeon to allocate more memory than for
one KDE 4 session).

In principle it should be possible to use image_size to make the
memory preallocation mechanism free enough memory for the radeon
driver, but in practice it is not easy to guess the right value
because of the way the preallocation code uses image_size.  For this
reason, it seems reasonable to allow users to control the amount of
memory reserved for driver allocations made after the hibernate
preallocation, which currently is constant and amounts to 1 MB.

Introduce a new sysfs file, /sys/power/reserved_size, whose value
will be used as the amount of memory to reserve for the
post-preallocation reservations made by device drivers, in bytes.
For backwards compatibility, set its default (and initial) value to
the currently used number (1 MB).

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34102
Reported-and-tested-by: Martin Steigerwald &lt;Martin@Lichtvoll.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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Martin reports that on his system hibernation occasionally fails due
to the lack of memory, because the radeon driver apparently allocates
too much of it during the device freeze stage.  It turns out that the
amount of memory allocated by radeon during hibernation (and
presumably during system suspend too) depends on the utilization of
the GPU (e.g. hibernating while there are two KDE 4 sessions with
compositing enabled causes radeon to allocate more memory than for
one KDE 4 session).

In principle it should be possible to use image_size to make the
memory preallocation mechanism free enough memory for the radeon
driver, but in practice it is not easy to guess the right value
because of the way the preallocation code uses image_size.  For this
reason, it seems reasonable to allow users to control the amount of
memory reserved for driver allocations made after the hibernate
preallocation, which currently is constant and amounts to 1 MB.

Introduce a new sysfs file, /sys/power/reserved_size, whose value
will be used as the amount of memory to reserve for the
post-preallocation reservations made by device drivers, in bytes.
For backwards compatibility, set its default (and initial) value to
the currently used number (1 MB).

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34102
Reported-and-tested-by: Martin Steigerwald &lt;Martin@Lichtvoll.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PM / Hibernate: Make default image size depend on total RAM size</title>
<updated>2010-10-16T23:57:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-20T17:44:56+00:00</published>
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The default hibernation image size is currently hard coded and euqal
to 500 MB, which is not a reasonable default on many contemporary
systems.  Make it equal 2/5 of the total RAM size (this is slightly
below the maximum, i.e. 1/2 of the total RAM size, and seems to be
generally suitable).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Tested-by: M. Vefa Bicakci &lt;bicave@superonline.com&gt;
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The default hibernation image size is currently hard coded and euqal
to 500 MB, which is not a reasonable default on many contemporary
systems.  Make it equal 2/5 of the total RAM size (this is slightly
below the maximum, i.e. 1/2 of the total RAM size, and seems to be
generally suitable).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Tested-by: M. Vefa Bicakci &lt;bicave@superonline.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PM / Hibernate: Compress hibernation image with LZO</title>
<updated>2010-10-16T23:57:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bojan Smojver</name>
<email>bojan@rexursive.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-09T21:06:23+00:00</published>
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Compress hibernation image with LZO in order to save on I/O and
therefore time to hibernate/thaw.

[rjw: Added hibernate=nocompress command line option instead of just
 nocompress which would be confusing, fixed a couple of compiler
 warnings, fixed kerneldoc comments, minor cleanups.]

Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver &lt;bojan@rexursive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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Compress hibernation image with LZO in order to save on I/O and
therefore time to hibernate/thaw.

[rjw: Added hibernate=nocompress command line option instead of just
 nocompress which would be confusing, fixed a couple of compiler
 warnings, fixed kerneldoc comments, minor cleanups.]

Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver &lt;bojan@rexursive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PM / Hibernate: Separate block_io</title>
<updated>2010-05-10T21:08:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-01T21:52:34+00:00</published>
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Move block I/O operations to a separate file. It is because it will
be used later not only by the swap writer.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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Move block I/O operations to a separate file. It is because it will
be used later not only by the swap writer.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM / Hibernate: Snapshot cleanup</title>
<updated>2010-05-10T21:08:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-01T21:52:02+00:00</published>
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Remove support of reads with offset. This means snapshot_read/write_next
now does not accept count parameter. It allows to clean up the functions
and snapshot handle which no longer needs to care about offsets.

/dev/snapshot handler is converted to simple_{read_from,write_to}_buffer
which take care of offsets.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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Remove support of reads with offset. This means snapshot_read/write_next
now does not accept count parameter. It allows to clean up the functions
and snapshot handle which no longer needs to care about offsets.

/dev/snapshot handler is converted to simple_{read_from,write_to}_buffer
which take care of offsets.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PM/Hibernate: Do not release preallocated memory unnecessarily (rev. 2)</title>
<updated>2009-09-14T18:26:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-08T11:24:05+00:00</published>
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Since the hibernation code is now going to use allocations of memory
to make enough room for the image, it can also use the page frames
allocated at this stage as image page frames.  The low-level
hibernation code needs to be rearranged for this purpose, but it
allows us to avoid freeing a great number of pages and allocating
these same pages once again later, so it generally is worth doing.

[rev. 2: Take highmem into account correctly.]

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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Since the hibernation code is now going to use allocations of memory
to make enough room for the image, it can also use the page frames
allocated at this stage as image page frames.  The low-level
hibernation code needs to be rearranged for this purpose, but it
allows us to avoid freeing a great number of pages and allocating
these same pages once again later, so it generally is worth doing.

[rev. 2: Take highmem into account correctly.]

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PM/Hibernate: Rename disk.c to hibernate.c</title>
<updated>2009-06-12T19:32:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-09T23:27:49+00:00</published>
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Change the name of kernel/power/disk.c to kernel/power/hibernate.c
in analogy with the file names introduced by the changes that
separated the suspend to RAM and standby funtionality from the
common PM functions.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
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Change the name of kernel/power/disk.c to kernel/power/hibernate.c
in analogy with the file names introduced by the changes that
separated the suspend to RAM and standby funtionality from the
common PM functions.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
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