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authorPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>2010-04-23 20:32:29 +0200
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2010-05-10 23:08:17 +0200
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PM / Hibernate: document open(/dev/snapshot) side effects
Opening and closing /dev/snapshot causes the kernel to carry out some hibernate preparations that should be documented. [rjw: Added the changelog.] Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ assumed to be in the resume mode. The device cannot be open for simultaneous
reading and writing. It is also impossible to have the device open more than
once at a time.
+Even opening the device has side effects. Data structures are
+allocated, and PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE / PM_RESTORE_PREPARE chains are
+called.
+
The ioctl() commands recognized by the device are:
SNAPSHOT_FREEZE - freeze user space processes (the current process is