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* PM / sleep / docs: Convert PM notifiers document to reSTRafael J. Wysocki2017-02-061-55/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Move the document describing PM notifiers (used during system sleep state transitions) to Documentation/driver-api/pm/, convert it to reST and update it to use current terminology. Also replace the remaining references to the old version of it in .txt documents with references to the new one. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* PM / hibernate: Correct documentationBorislav Petkov2013-05-141-2/+4
| | | | | | | | Correct the meaning of PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE in the docs. References: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130512162717.GA6305@pd.tnic Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
* PM: Allow drivers to allocate memory from .prepare() callbacks safelyRafael J. Wysocki2011-05-171-28/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If device drivers allocate substantial amounts of memory (above 1 MB) in their hibernate .freeze() callbacks (or in their legacy suspend callbcks during hibernation), the subsequent creation of hibernate image may fail due to the lack of memory. This is the case, because the drivers' .freeze() callbacks are executed after the hibernate memory preallocation has been carried out and the preallocated amount of memory may be too small to cover the new driver allocations. Unfortunately, the drivers' .prepare() callbacks also are executed after the hibernate memory preallocation has completed, so they are not suitable for allocating additional memory either. Thus the only way a driver can safely allocate memory during hibernation is to use a hibernate/suspend notifier. However, the notifiers are called before the freezing of user space and the drivers wanting to use them for allocating additional memory may not know how much memory needs to be allocated at that point. To let device drivers overcome this difficulty rework the hibernation sequence so that the memory preallocation is carried out after the drivers' .prepare() callbacks have been executed, so that the .prepare() callbacks can be used for allocating additional memory to be used by the drivers' .freeze() callbacks. Update documentation to match the new behavior of the code. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi2011-03-311-2/+2
| | | | | | Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
* Hibernation: Add PM_RESTORE_PREPARE and PM_POST_RESTORE notifiers (rev. 2)Alan Stern2008-02-011-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | Add PM_RESTORE_PREPARE and PM_POST_RESTORE notifiers to the PM core, to be used in analogy with the existing PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE and PM_POST_HIBERNATION notifiers. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* PM: introduce hibernation and suspend notifiersRafael J. Wysocki2007-07-191-0/+50
Make it possible to register hibernation and suspend notifiers, so that subsystems can perform hibernation-related or suspend-related operations that should not be carried out by device drivers' .suspend() and .resume() routines. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>