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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt index 32f187479697..381e9c0fb9d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt | |||
@@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA - set the resume partition and the offset (in <PAGE_SIZE> | |||
85 | recommended to always use this call, because the code to set the resume | 85 | recommended to always use this call, because the code to set the resume |
86 | partition may be removed from future kernels | 86 | partition may be removed from future kernels |
87 | 87 | ||
88 | SNAPSHOT_PLATFORM_SUPPORT - enable/disable the hibernation platform support, | ||
89 | depending on the argument value (enable, if the argument is nonzero) | ||
90 | |||
91 | SNAPSHOT_POWER_OFF - make the kernel transition the system to the hibernation | ||
92 | state (eg. ACPI S4) using the platform (eg. ACPI) driver | ||
93 | |||
88 | SNAPSHOT_S2RAM - suspend to RAM; using this call causes the kernel to | 94 | SNAPSHOT_S2RAM - suspend to RAM; using this call causes the kernel to |
89 | immediately enter the suspend-to-RAM state, so this call must always | 95 | immediately enter the suspend-to-RAM state, so this call must always |
90 | be preceded by the SNAPSHOT_FREEZE call and it is also necessary | 96 | be preceded by the SNAPSHOT_FREEZE call and it is also necessary |
@@ -95,24 +101,6 @@ SNAPSHOT_S2RAM - suspend to RAM; using this call causes the kernel to | |||
95 | to resume the system from RAM if there's enough battery power or restore | 101 | to resume the system from RAM if there's enough battery power or restore |
96 | its state on the basis of the saved suspend image otherwise) | 102 | its state on the basis of the saved suspend image otherwise) |
97 | 103 | ||
98 | SNAPSHOT_PMOPS - enable the usage of the hibernation_ops->prepare, | ||
99 | hibernate_ops->enter and hibernation_ops->finish methods (the in-kernel | ||
100 | swsusp knows these as the "platform method") which are needed on many | ||
101 | machines to (among others) speed up the resume by letting the BIOS skip | ||
102 | some steps or to let the system recognise the correct state of the | ||
103 | hardware after the resume (in particular on many machines this ensures | ||
104 | that unplugged AC adapters get correctly detected and that kacpid does | ||
105 | not run wild after the resume). The last ioctl() argument can take one | ||
106 | of the three values, defined in kernel/power/power.h: | ||
107 | PMOPS_PREPARE - make the kernel carry out the | ||
108 | hibernation_ops->prepare() operation | ||
109 | PMOPS_ENTER - make the kernel power off the system by calling | ||
110 | hibernation_ops->enter() | ||
111 | PMOPS_FINISH - make the kernel carry out the | ||
112 | hibernation_ops->finish() operation | ||
113 | Note that the actual constants are misnamed because they surface | ||
114 | internal kernel implementation details that have changed. | ||
115 | |||
116 | The device's read() operation can be used to transfer the snapshot image from | 104 | The device's read() operation can be used to transfer the snapshot image from |
117 | the kernel. It has the following limitations: | 105 | the kernel. It has the following limitations: |
118 | - you cannot read() more than one virtual memory page at a time | 106 | - you cannot read() more than one virtual memory page at a time |