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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/power')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt index edeecd447d23..b96098ccfe69 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt @@ -75,12 +75,14 @@ you should do the following: # echo platform > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state -Then, the kernel will try to freeze processes, suspend devices, wait 5 seconds, -resume devices and thaw processes. If "platform" is written to +Then, the kernel will try to freeze processes, suspend devices, wait a few +seconds (5 by default, but configurable by the suspend.pm_test_delay module +parameter), resume devices and thaw processes. If "platform" is written to /sys/power/pm_test , then after suspending devices the kernel will additionally invoke the global control methods (eg. ACPI global control methods) used to -prepare the platform firmware for hibernation. Next, it will wait 5 seconds and -invoke the platform (eg. ACPI) global methods used to cancel hibernation etc. +prepare the platform firmware for hibernation. Next, it will wait a +configurable number of seconds and invoke the platform (eg. ACPI) global +methods used to cancel hibernation etc. Writing "none" to /sys/power/pm_test causes the kernel to switch to the normal hibernation/suspend operations. Also, when open for reading, /sys/power/pm_test |