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diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 236d1fb13640..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,446 +0,0 @@ -Some warnings, first. - - * BIG FAT WARNING ********************************************************* - * - * If you touch anything on disk between suspend and resume... - * ...kiss your data goodbye. - * - * If you do resume from initrd after your filesystems are mounted... - * ...bye bye root partition. - * [this is actually same case as above] - * - * If you have unsupported (*) devices using DMA, you may have some - * problems. If your disk driver does not support suspend... (IDE does), - * it may cause some problems, too. If you change kernel command line - * between suspend and resume, it may do something wrong. If you change - * your hardware while system is suspended... well, it was not good idea; - * but it will probably only crash. - * - * (*) suspend/resume support is needed to make it safe. - * - * If you have any filesystems on USB devices mounted before software suspend, - * they won't be accessible after resume and you may lose data, as though - * you have unplugged the USB devices with mounted filesystems on them; - * see the FAQ below for details. (This is not true for more traditional - * power states like "standby", which normally don't turn USB off.) - -Swap partition: -You need to append resume=/dev/your_swap_partition to kernel command -line or specify it using /sys/power/resume. - -Swap file: -If using a swapfile you can also specify a resume offset using -resume_offset=<number> on the kernel command line or specify it -in /sys/power/resume_offset. - -After preparing then you suspend by - -echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state - -. If you feel ACPI works pretty well on your system, you might try - -echo platform > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state - -. If you would like to write hibernation image to swap and then suspend -to RAM (provided your platform supports it), you can try - -echo suspend > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state - -. If you have SATA disks, you'll need recent kernels with SATA suspend -support. For suspend and resume to work, make sure your disk drivers -are built into kernel -- not modules. [There's way to make -suspend/resume with modular disk drivers, see FAQ, but you probably -should not do that.] - -If you want to limit the suspend image size to N bytes, do - -echo N > /sys/power/image_size - -before suspend (it is limited to around 2/5 of available RAM by default). - -. The resume process checks for the presence of the resume device, -if found, it then checks the contents for the hibernation image signature. -If both are found, it resumes the hibernation image. - -. The resume process may be triggered in two ways: - 1) During lateinit: If resume=/dev/your_swap_partition is specified on - the kernel command line, lateinit runs the resume process. If the - resume device has not been probed yet, the resume process fails and - bootup continues. - 2) Manually from an initrd or initramfs: May be run from - the init script by using the /sys/power/resume file. It is vital - that this be done prior to remounting any filesystems (even as - read-only) otherwise data may be corrupted. - -Article about goals and implementation of Software Suspend for Linux -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Author: Gábor Kuti -Last revised: 2003-10-20 by Pavel Machek - -Idea and goals to achieve - -Nowadays it is common in several laptops that they have a suspend button. It -saves the state of the machine to a filesystem or to a partition and switches -to standby mode. Later resuming the machine the saved state is loaded back to -ram and the machine can continue its work. It has two real benefits. First we -save ourselves the time machine goes down and later boots up, energy costs -are real high when running from batteries. The other gain is that we don't have to -interrupt our programs so processes that are calculating something for a long -time shouldn't need to be written interruptible. - -swsusp saves the state of the machine into active swaps and then reboots or -powerdowns. You must explicitly specify the swap partition to resume from with -``resume='' kernel option. If signature is found it loads and restores saved -state. If the option ``noresume'' is specified as a boot parameter, it skips -the resuming. If the option ``hibernate=nocompress'' is specified as a boot -parameter, it saves hibernation image without compression. - -In the meantime while the system is suspended you should not add/remove any -of the hardware, write to the filesystems, etc. - -Sleep states summary -==================== - -There are three different interfaces you can use, /proc/acpi should -work like this: - -In a really perfect world: -echo 1 > /proc/acpi/sleep # for standby -echo 2 > /proc/acpi/sleep # for suspend to ram -echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep # for suspend to ram, but with more power conservative -echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep # for suspend to disk -echo 5 > /proc/acpi/sleep # for shutdown unfriendly the system - -and perhaps -echo 4b > /proc/acpi/sleep # for suspend to disk via s4bios - -Frequently Asked Questions -========================== - -Q: well, suspending a server is IMHO a really stupid thing, -but... (Diego Zuccato): - -A: You bought new UPS for your server. How do you install it without -bringing machine down? Suspend to disk, rearrange power cables, -resume. - -You have your server on UPS. Power died, and UPS is indicating 30 -seconds to failure. What do you do? Suspend to disk. - - -Q: Maybe I'm missing something, but why don't the regular I/O paths work? - -A: We do use the regular I/O paths. However we cannot restore the data -to its original location as we load it. That would create an -inconsistent kernel state which would certainly result in an oops. -Instead, we load the image into unused memory and then atomically copy -it back to it original location. This implies, of course, a maximum -image size of half the amount of memory. - -There are two solutions to this: - -* require half of memory to be free during suspend. That way you can -read "new" data onto free spots, then cli and copy - -* assume we had special "polling" ide driver that only uses memory -between 0-640KB. That way, I'd have to make sure that 0-640KB is free -during suspending, but otherwise it would work... - -suspend2 shares this fundamental limitation, but does not include user -data and disk caches into "used memory" by saving them in -advance. That means that the limitation goes away in practice. - -Q: Does linux support ACPI S4? - -A: Yes. That's what echo platform > /sys/power/disk does. - -Q: What is 'suspend2'? - -A: suspend2 is 'Software Suspend 2', a forked implementation of -suspend-to-disk which is available as separate patches for 2.4 and 2.6 -kernels from swsusp.sourceforge.net. It includes support for SMP, 4GB -highmem and preemption. It also has a extensible architecture that -allows for arbitrary transformations on the image (compression, -encryption) and arbitrary backends for writing the image (eg to swap -or an NFS share[Work In Progress]). Questions regarding suspend2 -should be sent to the mailing list available through the suspend2 -website, and not to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. We are working -toward merging suspend2 into the mainline kernel. - -Q: What is the freezing of tasks and why are we using it? - -A: The freezing of tasks is a mechanism by which user space processes and some -kernel threads are controlled during hibernation or system-wide suspend (on some -architectures). See freezing-of-tasks.txt for details. - -Q: What is the difference between "platform" and "shutdown"? - -A: - -shutdown: save state in linux, then tell bios to powerdown - -platform: save state in linux, then tell bios to powerdown and blink - "suspended led" - -"platform" is actually right thing to do where supported, but -"shutdown" is most reliable (except on ACPI systems). - -Q: I do not understand why you have such strong objections to idea of -selective suspend. - -A: Do selective suspend during runtime power management, that's okay. But -it's useless for suspend-to-disk. (And I do not see how you could use -it for suspend-to-ram, I hope you do not want that). - -Lets see, so you suggest to - -* SUSPEND all but swap device and parents -* Snapshot -* Write image to disk -* SUSPEND swap device and parents -* Powerdown - -Oh no, that does not work, if swap device or its parents uses DMA, -you've corrupted data. You'd have to do - -* SUSPEND all but swap device and parents -* FREEZE swap device and parents -* Snapshot -* UNFREEZE swap device and parents -* Write -* SUSPEND swap device and parents - -Which means that you still need that FREEZE state, and you get more -complicated code. (And I have not yet introduce details like system -devices). - -Q: There don't seem to be any generally useful behavioral -distinctions between SUSPEND and FREEZE. - -A: Doing SUSPEND when you are asked to do FREEZE is always correct, -but it may be unnecessarily slow. If you want your driver to stay simple, -slowness may not matter to you. It can always be fixed later. - -For devices like disk it does matter, you do not want to spindown for -FREEZE. - -Q: After resuming, system is paging heavily, leading to very bad interactivity. - -A: Try running - -cat /proc/[0-9]*/maps | grep / | sed 's:.* /:/:' | sort -u | while read file -do - test -f "$file" && cat "$file" > /dev/null -done - -after resume. swapoff -a; swapon -a may also be useful. - -Q: What happens to devices during swsusp? They seem to be resumed -during system suspend? - -A: That's correct. We need to resume them if we want to write image to -disk. Whole sequence goes like - - Suspend part - ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - running system, user asks for suspend-to-disk - - user processes are stopped - - suspend(PMSG_FREEZE): devices are frozen so that they don't interfere - with state snapshot - - state snapshot: copy of whole used memory is taken with interrupts disabled - - resume(): devices are woken up so that we can write image to swap - - write image to swap - - suspend(PMSG_SUSPEND): suspend devices so that we can power off - - turn the power off - - Resume part - ~~~~~~~~~~~ - (is actually pretty similar) - - running system, user asks for suspend-to-disk - - user processes are stopped (in common case there are none, but with resume-from-initrd, no one knows) - - read image from disk - - suspend(PMSG_FREEZE): devices are frozen so that they don't interfere - with image restoration - - image restoration: rewrite memory with image - - resume(): devices are woken up so that system can continue - - thaw all user processes - -Q: What is this 'Encrypt suspend image' for? - -A: First of all: it is not a replacement for dm-crypt encrypted swap. -It cannot protect your computer while it is suspended. Instead it does -protect from leaking sensitive data after resume from suspend. - -Think of the following: you suspend while an application is running -that keeps sensitive data in memory. The application itself prevents -the data from being swapped out. Suspend, however, must write these -data to swap to be able to resume later on. Without suspend encryption -your sensitive data are then stored in plaintext on disk. This means -that after resume your sensitive data are accessible to all -applications having direct access to the swap device which was used -for suspend. If you don't need swap after resume these data can remain -on disk virtually forever. Thus it can happen that your system gets -broken in weeks later and sensitive data which you thought were -encrypted and protected are retrieved and stolen from the swap device. -To prevent this situation you should use 'Encrypt suspend image'. - -During suspend a temporary key is created and this key is used to -encrypt the data written to disk. When, during resume, the data was -read back into memory the temporary key is destroyed which simply -means that all data written to disk during suspend are then -inaccessible so they can't be stolen later on. The only thing that -you must then take care of is that you call 'mkswap' for the swap -partition used for suspend as early as possible during regular -boot. This asserts that any temporary key from an oopsed suspend or -from a failed or aborted resume is erased from the swap device. - -As a rule of thumb use encrypted swap to protect your data while your -system is shut down or suspended. Additionally use the encrypted -suspend image to prevent sensitive data from being stolen after -resume. - -Q: Can I suspend to a swap file? - -A: Generally, yes, you can. However, it requires you to use the "resume=" and -"resume_offset=" kernel command line parameters, so the resume from a swap file -cannot be initiated from an initrd or initramfs image. See -swsusp-and-swap-files.txt for details. - -Q: Is there a maximum system RAM size that is supported by swsusp? - -A: It should work okay with highmem. - -Q: Does swsusp (to disk) use only one swap partition or can it use -multiple swap partitions (aggregate them into one logical space)? - -A: Only one swap partition, sorry. - -Q: If my application(s) causes lots of memory & swap space to be used -(over half of the total system RAM), is it correct that it is likely -to be useless to try to suspend to disk while that app is running? - -A: No, it should work okay, as long as your app does not mlock() -it. Just prepare big enough swap partition. - -Q: What information is useful for debugging suspend-to-disk problems? - -A: Well, last messages on the screen are always useful. If something -is broken, it is usually some kernel driver, therefore trying with as -little as possible modules loaded helps a lot. I also prefer people to -suspend from console, preferably without X running. Booting with -init=/bin/bash, then swapon and starting suspend sequence manually -usually does the trick. Then it is good idea to try with latest -vanilla kernel. - -Q: How can distributions ship a swsusp-supporting kernel with modular -disk drivers (especially SATA)? - -A: Well, it can be done, load the drivers, then do echo into -/sys/power/resume file from initrd. Be sure not to mount -anything, not even read-only mount, or you are going to lose your -data. - -Q: How do I make suspend more verbose? - -A: If you want to see any non-error kernel messages on the virtual -terminal the kernel switches to during suspend, you have to set the -kernel console loglevel to at least 4 (KERN_WARNING), for example by -doing - - # save the old loglevel - read LOGLEVEL DUMMY < /proc/sys/kernel/printk - # set the loglevel so we see the progress bar. - # if the level is higher than needed, we leave it alone. - if [ $LOGLEVEL -lt 5 ]; then - echo 5 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk - fi - - IMG_SZ=0 - read IMG_SZ < /sys/power/image_size - echo -n disk > /sys/power/state - RET=$? - # - # the logic here is: - # if image_size > 0 (without kernel support, IMG_SZ will be zero), - # then try again with image_size set to zero. - if [ $RET -ne 0 -a $IMG_SZ -ne 0 ]; then # try again with minimal image size - echo 0 > /sys/power/image_size - echo -n disk > /sys/power/state - RET=$? - fi - - # restore previous loglevel - echo $LOGLEVEL > /proc/sys/kernel/printk - exit $RET - -Q: Is this true that if I have a mounted filesystem on a USB device and -I suspend to disk, I can lose data unless the filesystem has been mounted -with "sync"? - -A: That's right ... if you disconnect that device, you may lose data. -In fact, even with "-o sync" you can lose data if your programs have -information in buffers they haven't written out to a disk you disconnect, -or if you disconnect before the device finished saving data you wrote. - -Software suspend normally powers down USB controllers, which is equivalent -to disconnecting all USB devices attached to your system. - -Your system might well support low-power modes for its USB controllers -while the system is asleep, maintaining the connection, using true sleep -modes like "suspend-to-RAM" or "standby". (Don't write "disk" to the -/sys/power/state file; write "standby" or "mem".) We've not seen any -hardware that can use these modes through software suspend, although in -theory some systems might support "platform" modes that won't break the -USB connections. - -Remember that it's always a bad idea to unplug a disk drive containing a -mounted filesystem. That's true even when your system is asleep! The -safest thing is to unmount all filesystems on removable media (such USB, -Firewire, CompactFlash, MMC, external SATA, or even IDE hotplug bays) -before suspending; then remount them after resuming. - -There is a work-around for this problem. For more information, see -Documentation/driver-api/usb/persist.rst. - -Q: Can I suspend-to-disk using a swap partition under LVM? - -A: Yes and No. You can suspend successfully, but the kernel will not be able -to resume on its own. You need an initramfs that can recognize the resume -situation, activate the logical volume containing the swap volume (but not -touch any filesystems!), and eventually call - -echo -n "$major:$minor" > /sys/power/resume - -where $major and $minor are the respective major and minor device numbers of -the swap volume. - -uswsusp works with LVM, too. See http://suspend.sourceforge.net/ - -Q: I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.15 to 2.6.16. Both kernels were -compiled with the similar configuration files. Anyway I found that -suspend to disk (and resume) is much slower on 2.6.16 compared to -2.6.15. Any idea for why that might happen or how can I speed it up? - -A: This is because the size of the suspend image is now greater than -for 2.6.15 (by saving more data we can get more responsive system -after resume). - -There's the /sys/power/image_size knob that controls the size of the -image. If you set it to 0 (eg. by echo 0 > /sys/power/image_size as -root), the 2.6.15 behavior should be restored. If it is still too -slow, take a look at suspend.sf.net -- userland suspend is faster and -supports LZF compression to speed it up further. |