| Message ID | 1652860121-24092-3-git-send-email-quic_vivekuma@quicinc.com |
|---|---|
| State | New |
| Headers | show |
| Series | Bootloader based hibernation | expand |
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 01:18:37PM +0530, Vivek Kumar wrote: > Add a kernel parameter to disable the disk offset randomization > for SSD devices in which such feature is available at the > firmware level. This is helpful in improving hibernation > resume time. This patch just adds a global variable which is then entirely igored. But the idea of "randomizing" offsets on SSDs sounds like complete BS to start with. The whole job of the SSD is to remap from a random writable block device to difference physical blocks to deal with erases and wear leveling. In other words it really doesn't matter what offset your write to. That being said I could not actually find any code that does this randomization to start with, but that might just be my lack of grep skills.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 666ade9..06b4f10 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -5192,6 +5192,17 @@ Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously (e.g. USB and MMC devices). + noswap_randomize + Kernel uses random disk offsets to help with wear-levelling + of SSD devices, while saving the hibernation snapshot image to + disk. Use this parameter to disable this feature for SSD + devices in scenarios when, such randomization is addressed at + the firmware level and hibenration image is not re-generated + frequently. + (Useful for improving hibernation resume time as snapshot pages + are available in disk serially and can be read in bigger chunks + without seeking) + retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction rfkill.default_state= diff --git a/kernel/power/swap.c b/kernel/power/swap.c index 91fffdd..8d5c811 100644 --- a/kernel/power/swap.c +++ b/kernel/power/swap.c @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ u32 swsusp_hardware_signature; */ static bool clean_pages_on_read; static bool clean_pages_on_decompress; +static bool noswap_randomize; /* * The swap map is a data structure used for keeping track of each page @@ -1616,3 +1617,11 @@ static int __init swsusp_header_init(void) } core_initcall(swsusp_header_init); + +static int __init noswap_randomize_setup(char *str) +{ + noswap_randomize = true; + return 1; +} + +__setup("noswap_randomize", noswap_randomize_setup);