diff --git a/Documentation/power/interface.txt b/Documentation/power/interface.txt
index f5ebda5f4276ad3a4823bb920b26dcc6dd36d247..bd4ffb5bd49a1d4e79fbceff8d9dc8fdcaef4200 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/interface.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/interface.txt
@@ -41,3 +41,14 @@ to. Writing to this file will accept one of
 It will only change to 'firmware' or 'platform' if the system supports
 it. 
 
+/sys/power/image_size controls the size of the image created by
+the suspend-to-disk mechanism.  It can be written a string
+representing a non-negative integer that will be used as an upper
+limit of the image size, in megabytes.  The suspend-to-disk mechanism will
+do its best to ensure the image size will not exceed that number.  However,
+if this turns out to be impossible, it will try to suspend anyway using the
+smallest image possible.  In particular, if "0" is written to this file, the
+suspend image will be as small as possible.
+
+Reading from this file will display the current image size limit, which
+is set to 500 MB by default.
diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
index b0d50840788ebf80fd478ac9db3e8ef841716e26..cd0fcd89a6f0a395511626de19be7f9ef75da709 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state
 
 echo platform > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state
 
+If you want to limit the suspend image size to N megabytes, do
+
+echo N > /sys/power/image_size
+
+before suspend (it is limited to 500 MB by default).
 
 Encrypted suspend image:
 ------------------------
diff --git a/kernel/power/disk.c b/kernel/power/disk.c
index 9e51cdf7b78d57575ff87ee352cbaf9691c606ab..e24446f8d8cde234357837f7bbf9b740b3a88b34 100644
--- a/kernel/power/disk.c
+++ b/kernel/power/disk.c
@@ -365,9 +365,29 @@ static ssize_t resume_store(struct subsystem *subsys, const char *buf, size_t n)
 
 power_attr(resume);
 
+static ssize_t image_size_show(struct subsystem * subsys, char *buf)
+{
+	return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", image_size);
+}
+
+static ssize_t image_size_store(struct subsystem * subsys, const char * buf, size_t n)
+{
+	unsigned int size;
+
+	if (sscanf(buf, "%u", &size) == 1) {
+		image_size = size;
+		return n;
+	}
+
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
+
+power_attr(image_size);
+
 static struct attribute * g[] = {
 	&disk_attr.attr,
 	&resume_attr.attr,
+	&image_size_attr.attr,
 	NULL,
 };
 
diff --git a/kernel/power/power.h b/kernel/power/power.h
index 9b045990361343efacce1cd606fe3b469956db11..273a5b1d70be7fe190fff428f8e85da80b758bb0 100644
--- a/kernel/power/power.h
+++ b/kernel/power/power.h
@@ -52,11 +52,8 @@ extern const void __nosave_begin, __nosave_end;
 extern unsigned int nr_copy_pages;
 extern struct pbe *pagedir_nosave;
 
-/*
- * Preferred image size in MB (set it to zero to get the smallest
- * image possible)
- */
-#define IMAGE_SIZE	500
+/* Preferred image size in MB (default 500) */
+extern unsigned int image_size;
 
 extern asmlinkage int swsusp_arch_suspend(void);
 extern asmlinkage int swsusp_arch_resume(void);
diff --git a/kernel/power/swsusp.c b/kernel/power/swsusp.c
index 6d5ceaf4c36478edee65dffc4562a2e4b00d9687..d760a6a719f0215fd44846d127f48aa42d7359e5 100644
--- a/kernel/power/swsusp.c
+++ b/kernel/power/swsusp.c
@@ -69,6 +69,14 @@
 
 #include "power.h"
 
+/*
+ * Preferred image size in MB (tunable via /sys/power/image_size).
+ * When it is set to N, swsusp will do its best to ensure the image
+ * size will not exceed N MB, but if that is impossible, it will
+ * try to create the smallest image possible.
+ */
+unsigned int image_size = 500;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 unsigned int count_highmem_pages(void);
 int save_highmem(void);
@@ -647,7 +655,7 @@ int swsusp_shrink_memory(void)
 			if (!tmp)
 				return -ENOMEM;
 			pages += tmp;
-		} else if (size > (IMAGE_SIZE * 1024 * 1024) / PAGE_SIZE) {
+		} else if (size > (image_size * 1024 * 1024) / PAGE_SIZE) {
 			tmp = shrink_all_memory(SHRINK_BITE);
 			pages += tmp;
 		}