From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757357AbcG1TcN (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2016 15:32:13 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:48928 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756713AbcG1TcL (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2016 15:32:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 21:32:06 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Chen Yu Cc: Linux PM , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Len Brown , Linux Kernel Mail List Subject: Re: [PATCH][v6] PM / hibernate: Introduce test_resume mode for hibernation Message-ID: <20160728193206.GC8837@amd> References: <1469154647-5860-1-git-send-email-yu.c.chen@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1469154647-5860-1-git-send-email-yu.c.chen@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > Signed-off-by: Chen Yu Acked-by: Pavel Machek (And yes, I'd still like documentation patch for this, but that can be done in separate patch.) Thanks, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html