linux.git/kernel/power/swap.c, branch v2.6.36

swap: revert special hibernation allocation

2010-09-10T01:57:25+00:00

Please revert 2.6.36-rc commit d2997b1042ec150616c1963b5e5e919ffd0b0ebf
"hibernation: freeze swap at hibernation".  It complicated matters by
adding a second swap allocation path, just for hibernation; without in any
way fixing the issue that it was intended to address - page reclaim after
fixing the hibernation image might free swap from a page already imaged as
swapcache, letting its swap be reallocated to store a different page of
the image: resulting in data corruption if the imaged page were freed as
clean then swapped back in.  Pages freed to si->swap_map were still in
danger of being reallocated by the alternative allocation path.

I guess it inadvertently fixed slow SSD swap allocation for hibernation,
as reported by Nigel Cunningham: by missing out the discards that occur on
the usual swap allocation path; but that was unintentional, and needs a
separate fix.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Ondrej Zary 
Cc: Andrea Gelmini 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Nigel Cunningham 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hibernation: freeze swap at hibernation

2010-08-10T03:45:04+00:00

When taking a memory snapshot in hibernate_snapshot(), all (directly
called) memory allocations use GFP_ATOMIC.  Hence swap misusage during
hibernation never occurs.

But from a pessimistic point of view, there is no guarantee that no page
allcation has __GFP_WAIT.  It is better to have a global indication "we
enter hibernation, don't use swap!".

This patch tries to freeze new-swap-allocation during hibernation.  (All
user processes are frozenm so swapin is not a concern).

This way, no updates will happen to swap_map[] between
hibernate_snapshot() and save_image().  Swap is thawed when swsusp_free()
is called.  We can be assured that swap corruption will not occur.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Ondrej Zary 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2010-08-04T22:31:02+00:00

* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (48 commits)
  Documentation: update broken web addresses.
  fix comment typo "choosed" -> "chosen"
  hostap:hostap_hw.c Fix typo in comment
  Fix spelling contorller -> controller in comments
  Kconfig.debug: FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT: typo Faul -> Fault
  fs/Kconfig: Fix typo Userpace -> Userspace
  Removing dead MACH_U300_BS26
  drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/ocfs2: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  libfc: use ARRAY_SIZE
  scsi: bfa: use ARRAY_SIZE
  drm: i915: use ARRAY_SIZE
  drm: drm_edid: use ARRAY_SIZE
  synclink: use ARRAY_SIZE
  block: cciss: use ARRAY_SIZE
  comment typo fixes: charater => character
  fix comment typos concerning "challenge"
  arm: plat-spear: fix typo in kerneldoc
  reiserfs: typo comment fix
  update email address
  ...

update email address

2010-07-19T08:56:54+00:00

pavel@suse.cz no longer works, replace it with working address.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

PM / Hibernate: Fix typos in comments in kernel/power/swap.c

2010-07-18T23:58:47+00:00

There are a few typos in kernel/power/swap.c.  Fix them.

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros 
Acked-by: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

PM / Hibernate: Group swap ops

2010-05-10T21:08:18+00:00

Move all the swap processing into one function. It will make swap
calls from a non-swap code easier.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

PM / Hibernate: Move the first_sector out of swsusp_write

2010-05-10T21:08:18+00:00

The first sector knowledge is swap-only specific. Move it into the
swap handle. This will be needed for later non-swap specific code
moving into snapshot.c.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Acked-by: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki"

PM / Hibernate: Separate block_io

2010-05-10T21:08:18+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

PM / Hibernate: Snapshot cleanup

2010-05-10T21:08:17+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn