1. 26 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] swsusp: Introduce memory bitmaps · b788db79
      Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
      Introduce the memory bitmap data structure and make swsusp use in the suspend
      phase.
      
      The current swsusp's internal data structure is not very efficient from the
      memory usage point of view, so it seems reasonable to replace it with a data
      structure that will require less memory, such as a pair of bitmaps.
      
      The idea is to use bitmaps that may be allocated as sets of individual pages,
      so that we can avoid making allocations of order greater than 0.  For this
      reason the memory bitmap structure consists of several linked lists of objects
      that contain pointers to memory pages with the actual bitmap data.  Still, for
      a typical system all of these lists fit in a single page, so it's reasonable
      to introduce an additional mechanism allowing us to allocate all of them
      efficiently without sacrificing the generality of the design.  This is done
      with the help of the chain_allocator structure and associated functions.
      
      We need to use two memory bitmaps during the suspend phase of the
      suspend-resume cycle.  One of them is necessary for marking the saveable
      pages, and the second is used to mark the pages in which to store the copies
      of them (aka image pages).
      
      First, the bitmaps are created and we allocate as many image pages as needed
      (the corresponding bits in the second bitmap are set as soon as the pages are
      allocated).  Second, the bits corresponding to the saveable pages are set in
      the first bitmap and the saveable pages are copied to the image pages.
      Finally, the first bitmap is used to save the kernel virtual addresses of the
      saveable pages and the second one is used to save the contents of the image
      pages.
      Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b788db79
  2. 26 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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  12. 30 10月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] core remove PageReserved · b5810039
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Remove PageReserved() calls from core code by tightening VM_RESERVED
      handling in mm/ to cover PageReserved functionality.
      
      PageReserved special casing is removed from get_page and put_page.
      
      All setting and clearing of PageReserved is retained, and it is now flagged
      in the page_alloc checks to help ensure we don't introduce any refcount
      based freeing of Reserved pages.
      
      MAP_PRIVATE, PROT_WRITE of VM_RESERVED regions is tentatively being
      deprecated.  We never completely handled it correctly anyway, and is be
      reintroduced in future if required (Hugh has a proof of concept).
      
      Once PageReserved() calls are removed from kernel/power/swsusp.c, and all
      arch/ and driver code, the Set and Clear calls, and the PG_reserved bit can
      be trivially removed.
      
      Last real user of PageReserved is swsusp, which uses PageReserved to
      determine whether a struct page points to valid memory or not.  This still
      needs to be addressed (a generic page_is_ram() should work).
      
      A last caveat: the ZERO_PAGE is now refcounted and managed with rmap (and
      thus mapcounted and count towards shared rss).  These writes to the struct
      page could cause excessive cacheline bouncing on big systems.  There are a
      number of ways this could be addressed if it is an issue.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      
      Refcount bug fix for filemap_xip.c
      Signed-off-by: NCarsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b5810039
  13. 28 10月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86_64: Set up safe page tables during resume · 3dd08325
      Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
      The following patch makes swsusp avoid the possible temporary corruption
      of page translation tables during resume on x86-64.  This is achieved by
      creating a copy of the relevant page tables that will not be modified by
      swsusp and can be safely used by it on resume.
      
      The problem is that during resume on x86-64 swsusp may temporarily
      corrupt the page tables used for the direct mapping of RAM.  If that
      happens, a page fault occurs and cannot be handled properly, which leads
      to the solid hang of the affected system.  This leads to the loss of the
      system's state from before suspend and may result in the loss of data or
      the corruption of filesystems, so it is a serious issue.  Also, it
      appears to happen quite often (for me, as often as 50% of the time).
      
      The problem is related to the fact that (at least) one of the PMD
      entries used in the direct memory mapping (starting at PAGE_OFFSET)
      points to a page table the physical address of which is much greater
      than the physical address of the PMD entry itself.  Moreover,
      unfortunately, the physical address of the page table before suspend
      (i.e.  the one stored in the suspend image) happens to be different to
      the physical address of the corresponding page table used during resume
      (i.e.  the one that is valid right before swsusp_arch_resume() in
      arch/x86_64/kernel/suspend_asm.S is executed).  Thus while the image is
      restored, the "offending" PMD entry gets overwritten, so it does not
      point to the right physical address any more (i.e.  there's no page
      table at the address pointed to by it, because it points to the address
      the page table has been at during suspend).  Consequently, if the PMD
      entry is used later on, and it _is_ used in the process of copying the
      image pages, a page fault occurs, but it cannot be handled in the normal
      way and the system hangs.
      
      In principle we can call create_resume_mapping() from
      swsusp_arch_resume() (ie.  from suspend_asm.S), but then the memory
      allocations in create_resume_mapping(), resume_pud_mapping(), and
      resume_pmd_mapping() must be made carefully so that we use _only_
      NosaveFree pages in them (the other pages are overwritten by the loop in
      swsusp_arch_resume()).  Additionally, we are in atomic context at that
      time, so we cannot use GFP_KERNEL.  Moreover, if one of the allocations
      fails, we should free all of the allocated pages, so we need to trace
      them somehow.
      
      All of this is done in the appended patch, except that the functions
      populating the page tables are located in arch/x86_64/kernel/suspend.c
      rather than in init.c.  It may be done in a more elegan way in the
      future, with the help of some swsusp patches that are in the works now.
      
      [AK: move some externs into headers, renamed a function]
      Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      3dd08325
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