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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM / hibernate: Introduce snapshot test mode for hibernation
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:50:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160713095005.GA27870@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1467873658-31986-1-git-send-email-yu.c.chen@intel.com>

On Thu 2016-07-07 14:40:58, Chen Yu wrote:
> This 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 BIOSen/bootloader,
> but also the system re-initialization.
> 
> For example:
> $ sudo echo snapshot > /sys/power/disk
> $ sudo echo disk > /sys/power/state
> 
> /* manual resume.*/
> $ sudo echo 8:3 > /sys/power/resume

Your examples will not work, will they?

This is also quite tricky/dangerous. If you do this with filesystems
mounted R/W, it is "good bye, filesystems".

I guess updating documentation would be welcome from my side,
otherwise it should be ok.

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>

Best regards,
								Pavel

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-13  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-07  6:40 [PATCH] PM / hibernate: Introduce snapshot test mode for hibernation Chen Yu
2016-07-13  9:50 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2016-07-13 10:20   ` Chen Yu
2016-07-13 10:21     ` Pavel Machek
2016-07-13 10:39       ` Chen Yu
2016-07-13 17:01         ` Pavel Machek
2016-07-13 20:04           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-13 20:26             ` Pavel Machek
2016-07-13 20:44               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-13 21:45                 ` Pavel Machek
2016-07-13 22:00                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-13 22:18                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-14 10:44                       ` Chen Yu

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