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diff --git a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt index b96098ccfe69..708f87f78a75 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt @@ -164,7 +164,32 @@ load n/2 modules more and try again. Again, if you find the offending module(s), it(they) must be unloaded every time before hibernation, and please report the problem with it(them). -c) Advanced debugging +c) Using the "test_resume" hibernation option + +/sys/power/disk generally tells the kernel what to do after creating a +hibernation image. One of the available options is "test_resume" which +causes the just created image to be used for immediate restoration. Namely, +after doing: + +# echo test_resume > /sys/power/disk +# echo disk > /sys/power/state + +a hibernation image will be created and a resume from it will be triggered +immediately without involving the platform firmware in any way. + +That test can be used to check if failures to resume from hibernation are +related to bad interactions with the platform firmware. That is, if the above +works every time, but resume from actual hibernation does not work or is +unreliable, the platform firmware may be responsible for the failures. + +On architectures and platforms that support using different kernels to restore +hibernation images (that is, the kernel used to read the image from storage and +load it into memory is different from the one included in the image) or support +kernel address space randomization, it also can be used to check if failures +to resume may be related to the differences between the restore and image +kernels. + +d) Advanced debugging In case that hibernation does not work on your system even in the minimal configuration and compiling more drivers as modules is not practical or some |