Commit ce2b7147 authored by Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar Rafael J. Wysocki Committed by Len Brown

PM: Suspend/hibernation debug documentation update (rev. 2)

Update the suspend/hibernation debugging and testing documentation to describe
the newly introduced testing facilities.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: default avatarPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
parent 4cc79776
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......@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ Testing suspend and resume support in device drivers
Unfortunately, to effectively test the support for the system-wide suspend and
resume transitions in a driver, it is necessary to suspend and resume a fully
functional system with this driver loaded. Moreover, that should be done
several times, preferably several times in a row, and separately for the suspend
to disk (STD) and the suspend to RAM (STR) transitions, because each of these
cases involves different ordering of operations and different interactions with
several times, preferably several times in a row, and separately for hibernation
(aka suspend to disk or STD) and suspend to RAM (STR), because each of these
cases involves slightly different operations and different interactions with
the machine's BIOS.
Of course, for this purpose the test system has to be known to suspend and
......@@ -22,20 +22,24 @@ for more information about the debugging of suspend/resume functionality.
Once you have resolved the suspend/resume-related problems with your test system
without the new driver, you are ready to test it:
a) Build the driver as a module, load it and try the STD in the test mode (see:
Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt, 1a)).
a) Build the driver as a module, load it and try the test modes of hibernation
(see: Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt, 1).
b) Load the driver and attempt to suspend to disk in the "reboot", "shutdown"
and "platform" modes (see: Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt, 1).
b) Load the driver and attempt to hibernate in the "reboot", "shutdown" and
"platform" modes (see: Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt, 1).
c) Compile the driver directly into the kernel and try the STD in the test mode.
c) Compile the driver directly into the kernel and try the test modes of
hibernation.
d) Attempt to suspend to disk with the driver compiled directly into the kernel
in the "reboot", "shutdown" and "platform" modes.
d) Attempt to hibernate with the driver compiled directly into the kernel
in the "reboot", "shutdown" and "platform" modes.
e) Attempt to suspend to RAM using the s2ram tool with the driver loaded (see:
Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt, 2). As far as the STR tests are
concerned, it should not matter whether or not the driver is built as a module.
e) Try the test modes of suspend (see: Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt,
2). [As far as the STR tests are concerned, it should not matter whether or
not the driver is built as a module.]
f) Attempt to suspend to RAM using the s2ram tool with the driver loaded
(see: Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt, 2).
Each of the above tests should be repeated several times and the STD tests
should be mixed with the STR tests. If any of them fails, the driver cannot be
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