Re: Memory allocations in .suspend became very unreliable

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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?

Rafael
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