Commit c7276fde authored by Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar Rafael J. Wysocki Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] kconfig: Update swsusp description

Update the outdated and inaccurate description of the software suspend in
Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 42a7fc4a
......@@ -81,29 +81,34 @@ config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
bool "Software Suspend"
depends on PM && SWAP && ((X86 && (!SMP || SUSPEND_SMP)) || ((FRV || PPC32) && !SMP))
---help---
Enable the possibility of suspending the machine.
It doesn't need ACPI or APM.
You may suspend your machine by 'swsusp' or 'shutdown -z <time>'
(patch for sysvinit needed).
Enable the suspend to disk (STD) functionality.
It creates an image which is saved in your active swap. Upon next
You can suspend your machine with 'echo disk > /sys/power/state'.
Alternatively, you can use the additional userland tools available
from <http://suspend.sf.net>.
In principle it does not require ACPI or APM, although for example
ACPI will be used if available.
It creates an image which is saved in your active swap. Upon the next
boot, pass the 'resume=/dev/swappartition' argument to the kernel to
have it detect the saved image, restore memory state from it, and
continue to run as before. If you do not want the previous state to
be reloaded, then use the 'noresume' kernel argument. However, note
that your partitions will be fsck'd and you must re-mkswap your swap
partitions. It does not work with swap files.
be reloaded, then use the 'noresume' kernel command line argument.
Note, however, that fsck will be run on your filesystems and you will
need to run mkswap against the swap partition used for the suspend.
Right now you may boot without resuming and then later resume but
in meantime you cannot use those swap partitions/files which were
involved in suspending. Also in this case there is a risk that buffers
on disk won't match with saved ones.
It also works with swap files to a limited extent (for details see
<file:Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt>).
For more information take a look at <file:Documentation/power/swsusp.txt>.
Right now you may boot without resuming and resume later but in the
meantime you cannot use the swap partition(s)/file(s) involved in
suspending. Also in this case you must not use the filesystems
that were mounted before the suspend. In particular, you MUST NOT
MOUNT any journaled filesystems mounted before the suspend or they
will get corrupted in a nasty way.
(For now, swsusp is incompatible with PAE aka HIGHMEM_64G on i386.
we need identity mapping for resume to work, and that is trivial
to get with 4MB pages, but less than trivial on PAE).
For more information take a look at <file:Documentation/power/swsusp.txt>.
config PM_STD_PARTITION
string "Default resume partition"
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