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author | Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> | 2006-12-12 17:41:41 -0500 |
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committer | Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> | 2006-12-12 17:41:41 -0500 |
commit | c4366889dda8110247be59ca41fddb82951a8c26 (patch) | |
tree | 705c1a996bed8fd48ce94ff33ec9fd00f9b94875 /Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power | |
parent | db2fb9db5735cc532fd4fc55e94b9a3c3750378e (diff) | |
parent | e1036502e5263851259d147771226161e5ccc85a (diff) | |
download | linux-rt-c4366889dda8110247be59ca41fddb82951a8c26.tar.gz |
Merge ../linus
Conflicts:
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power index d882f8093871..dcff4d0623ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Description: these states. What: /sys/power/disk -Date: August 2006 +Date: September 2006 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Description: The /sys/power/disk file controls the operating mode of the @@ -39,6 +39,19 @@ Description: 'reboot' - the memory image will be saved by the kernel and the system will be rebooted. + Additionally, /sys/power/disk can be used to turn on one of the + two testing modes of the suspend-to-disk mechanism: 'testproc' + or 'test'. If the suspend-to-disk mechanism is in the + 'testproc' mode, writing 'disk' to /sys/power/state will cause + the kernel to disable nonboot CPUs and freeze tasks, wait for 5 + seconds, unfreeze tasks and enable nonboot CPUs. If it is in + the 'test' mode, writing 'disk' to /sys/power/state will cause + the kernel to disable nonboot CPUs and freeze tasks, shrink + memory, suspend devices, wait for 5 seconds, resume devices, + unfreeze tasks and enable nonboot CPUs. Then, we are able to + look in the log messages and work out, for example, which code + is being slow and which device drivers are misbehaving. + The suspend-to-disk method may be chosen by writing to this file one of the accepted strings: @@ -46,6 +59,8 @@ Description: 'platform' 'shutdown' 'reboot' + 'testproc' + 'test' It will only change to 'firmware' or 'platform' if the system supports that. |