diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
index 194ca446ac28..b464d12761ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
@@ -158,3 +158,17 @@ Description:
 		successful, will make the kernel abort a subsequent transition
 		to a sleep state if any wakeup events are reported after the
 		write has returned.
+
+What:		/sys/power/reserved_size
+Date:		May 2011
+Contact:	Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
+Description:
+		The /sys/power/reserved_size file allows user space to control
+		the amount of memory reserved for allocations made by device
+		drivers during the "device freeze" stage of hibernation.  It can
+		be written a string representing a non-negative integer that
+		will be used as the amount of memory to reserve for allocations
+		made by device drivers' "freeze" callbacks, in bytes.
+
+		Reading from this file will display the current value, which is
+		set to 1 MB by default.
diff --git a/kernel/power/hibernate.c b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
index 50aae660174d..431721313b71 100644
--- a/kernel/power/hibernate.c
+++ b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
@@ -982,10 +982,33 @@ static ssize_t image_size_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *att
 
 power_attr(image_size);
 
+static ssize_t reserved_size_show(struct kobject *kobj,
+				  struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", reserved_size);
+}
+
+static ssize_t reserved_size_store(struct kobject *kobj,
+				   struct kobj_attribute *attr,
+				   const char *buf, size_t n)
+{
+	unsigned long size;
+
+	if (sscanf(buf, "%lu", &size) == 1) {
+		reserved_size = size;
+		return n;
+	}
+
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
+
+power_attr(reserved_size);
+
 static struct attribute * g[] = {
 	&disk_attr.attr,
 	&resume_attr.attr,
 	&image_size_attr.attr,
+	&reserved_size_attr.attr,
 	NULL,
 };
 
diff --git a/kernel/power/main.c b/kernel/power/main.c
index de9aef8742f4..2981af4ce7cb 100644
--- a/kernel/power/main.c
+++ b/kernel/power/main.c
@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ static int __init pm_init(void)
 	if (error)
 		return error;
 	hibernate_image_size_init();
+	hibernate_reserved_size_init();
 	power_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("power", NULL);
 	if (!power_kobj)
 		return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/kernel/power/power.h b/kernel/power/power.h
index 03634be55f62..9a00a0a26280 100644
--- a/kernel/power/power.h
+++ b/kernel/power/power.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ struct swsusp_info {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATION
 /* kernel/power/snapshot.c */
+extern void __init hibernate_reserved_size_init(void);
 extern void __init hibernate_image_size_init(void);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ extern int hibernation_platform_enter(void);
 
 #else /* !CONFIG_HIBERNATION */
 
+static inline void hibernate_reserved_size_init(void) {}
 static inline void hibernate_image_size_init(void) {}
 #endif /* !CONFIG_HIBERNATION */
 
@@ -72,6 +74,8 @@ static struct kobj_attribute _name##_attr = {	\
 
 /* Preferred image size in bytes (default 500 MB) */
 extern unsigned long image_size;
+/* Size of memory reserved for drivers (default SPARE_PAGES x PAGE_SIZE) */
+extern unsigned long reserved_size;
 extern int in_suspend;
 extern dev_t swsusp_resume_device;
 extern sector_t swsusp_resume_block;
diff --git a/kernel/power/snapshot.c b/kernel/power/snapshot.c
index ca0aacc24874..d69e3323a85d 100644
--- a/kernel/power/snapshot.c
+++ b/kernel/power/snapshot.c
@@ -40,6 +40,18 @@ static int swsusp_page_is_free(struct page *);
 static void swsusp_set_page_forbidden(struct page *);
 static void swsusp_unset_page_forbidden(struct page *);
 
+/*
+ * Number of bytes to reserve for memory allocations made by device drivers
+ * from their ->freeze() and ->freeze_noirq() callbacks so that they don't
+ * cause image creation to fail (tunable via /sys/power/reserved_size).
+ */
+unsigned long reserved_size;
+
+void __init hibernate_reserved_size_init(void)
+{
+	reserved_size = SPARE_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE;
+}
+
 /*
  * Preferred image size in bytes (tunable via /sys/power/image_size).
  * When it is set to N, the image creating code will do its best to
@@ -1263,11 +1275,13 @@ static unsigned long minimum_image_size(unsigned long saveable)
  * frame in use.  We also need a number of page frames to be free during
  * hibernation for allocations made while saving the image and for device
  * drivers, in case they need to allocate memory from their hibernation
- * callbacks (these two numbers are given by PAGES_FOR_IO and SPARE_PAGES,
- * respectively, both of which are rough estimates).  To make this happen, we
- * compute the total number of available page frames and allocate at least
+ * callbacks (these two numbers are given by PAGES_FOR_IO (which is a rough
+ * estimate) and reserverd_size divided by PAGE_SIZE (which is tunable through
+ * /sys/power/reserved_size, respectively).  To make this happen, we compute the
+ * total number of available page frames and allocate at least
  *
- * ([page frames total] + PAGES_FOR_IO + [metadata pages]) / 2 + 2 * SPARE_PAGES
+ * ([page frames total] + PAGES_FOR_IO + [metadata pages]) / 2
+ *  + 2 * DIV_ROUND_UP(reserved_size, PAGE_SIZE)
  *
  * of them, which corresponds to the maximum size of a hibernation image.
  *
@@ -1322,7 +1336,8 @@ int hibernate_preallocate_memory(void)
 	count -= totalreserve_pages;
 
 	/* Compute the maximum number of saveable pages to leave in memory. */
-	max_size = (count - (size + PAGES_FOR_IO)) / 2 - 2 * SPARE_PAGES;
+	max_size = (count - (size + PAGES_FOR_IO)) / 2
+			- 2 * DIV_ROUND_UP(reserved_size, PAGE_SIZE);
 	/* Compute the desired number of image pages specified by image_size. */
 	size = DIV_ROUND_UP(image_size, PAGE_SIZE);
 	if (size > max_size)