[linux-pm] Memory allocations in .suspend became very unreliable

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Saturday 16 January 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 23:03 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: 
> > On Friday 15 January 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > I know that this is very controversial, because here I want to describe
> > > a problem in a proprietary driver that happens now in 2.6.33-rc3
> > > I am taking about nvidia driver.
> > > 
> > > Some time ago I did very long hibernate test and found no errors after
> > > more that 200 cycles.
> > > 
> > > Now I update to 2.6.33 and notice that system will hand when nvidia
> > > driver allocates memory is their .suspend functions. 
> > 
> > They shouldn't do that, there's no guarantee that's going to work at all.
> > 
> > > This could fail in 2.6.32 if I would run many memory hungry
> > > applications, but now this happens with most of memory free.
> > 
> > This sounds a little strange.  What's the requested size of the image?
> Don't know, but system has to be very tight on memory.

Can you send full dmesg, please?

Rafael