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

From: Chen Yu
Date: Fri Jul 29 2016 - 04:14:24 EST


On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 09:32:06PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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! Will update the doc in another patch.
Yu