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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Description:
these states.
What: /sys/power/disk
-Date: August 2006
+Date: September 2006
Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Description:
The /sys/power/disk file controls the operating mode of the
@@ -39,6 +39,19 @@ Description:
'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:
@@ -46,6 +59,8 @@ Description:
'platform'
'shutdown'
'reboot'
+ 'testproc'
+ 'test'
It will only change to 'firmware' or 'platform' if the system
supports that.