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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dcff4d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +What: /sys/power/ +Date: August 2006 +Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> +Description: + The /sys/power directory will contain files that will + provide a unified interface to the power management + subsystem. + +What: /sys/power/state +Date: August 2006 +Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> +Description: + The /sys/power/state file controls the system power state. + Reading from this file returns what states are supported, + which is hard-coded to 'standby' (Power-On Suspend), 'mem' + (Suspend-to-RAM), and 'disk' (Suspend-to-Disk). + + Writing to this file one of these strings causes the system to + transition into that state. Please see the file + Documentation/power/states.txt for a description of each of + these states. + +What: /sys/power/disk +Date: September 2006 +Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> +Description: + The /sys/power/disk file controls the operating mode of the + suspend-to-disk mechanism. Reading from this file returns + the name of the method by which the system will be put to + sleep on the next suspend. There are four methods supported: + 'firmware' - means that the memory image will be saved to disk + by some firmware, in which case we also assume that the + firmware will handle the system suspend. + 'platform' - the memory image will be saved by the kernel and + the system will be put to sleep by the platform driver (e.g. + ACPI or other PM registers). + 'shutdown' - the memory image will be saved by the kernel and + the system will be powered off. + 'reboot' - the memory image will be saved by the kernel and + the system will be rebooted. + + Additionally, /sys/power/disk can be used to turn on one of the + two testing modes of the suspend-to-disk mechanism: 'testproc' + or 'test'. If the suspend-to-disk mechanism is in the + 'testproc' mode, writing 'disk' to /sys/power/state will cause + the kernel to disable nonboot CPUs and freeze tasks, wait for 5 + seconds, unfreeze tasks and enable nonboot CPUs. If it is in + the 'test' mode, writing 'disk' to /sys/power/state will cause + the kernel to disable nonboot CPUs and freeze tasks, shrink + memory, suspend devices, wait for 5 seconds, resume devices, + unfreeze tasks and enable nonboot CPUs. Then, we are able to + look in the log messages and work out, for example, which code + is being slow and which device drivers are misbehaving. + + The suspend-to-disk method may be chosen by writing to this + file one of the accepted strings: + + 'firmware' + 'platform' + 'shutdown' + 'reboot' + 'testproc' + 'test' + + It will only change to 'firmware' or 'platform' if the system + supports that. + +What: /sys/power/image_size +Date: August 2006 +Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> +Description: + The /sys/power/image_size file controls the size of the image + created by the suspend-to-disk mechanism. It can be written a + string representing a non-negative integer that will be used + as an upper limit of the image size, in bytes. The kernel's + suspend-to-disk code will do its best to ensure the image size + will not exceed this number. However, if it turns out to be + impossible, the kernel will try to suspend anyway using the + smallest image possible. In particular, if "0" is written to + this file, the suspend image will be as small as possible. + + Reading from this file will display the current image size + limit, which is set to 500 MB by default. + +What: /sys/power/pm_trace +Date: August 2006 +Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> +Description: + The /sys/power/pm_trace file controls the code which saves the + last PM event point in the RTC across reboots, so that you can + debug a machine that just hangs during suspend (or more + commonly, during resume). Namely, the RTC is only used to save + the last PM event point if this file contains '1'. Initially + it contains '0' which may be changed to '1' by writing a + string representing a nonzero integer into it. + + To use this debugging feature you should attempt to suspend + the machine, then reboot it and run + + dmesg -s 1000000 | grep 'hash matches' + + CAUTION: Using it will cause your machine's real-time (CMOS) + clock to be set to a random invalid time after a resume. |
