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