Re: [PATCH][v6] PM / hibernate: Introduce test_resume mode for hibernation

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Jul 28 2016 - 15:32:16 EST


On Fri 2016-07-22 10:30:47, Chen Yu wrote:
> test_resume mode is to verify if the snapshot data
> written to swap device can be successfully restored
> to memory. It is useful to ease the debugging process
> on hibernation, since this mode can not only bypass
> the BIOSes/bootloader, but also the system re-initialization.
>
> To avoid the risk to break the filesystm on persistent storage,
> this patch resumes the image with tasks frozen.
>
> For example:
> echo test_resume > /sys/power/disk
> echo disk > /sys/power/state
>
>
> Suggested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>

(And yes, I'd still like documentation patch for this, but that can be
done in separate patch.)

Thanks,
Pavel

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