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authorJames Hogan2010-10-12 00:00:25 +0200
committerRafael J. Wysocki2010-10-17 01:57:50 +0200
commitd33ac60beaf2c7dee5cd90aba7c1eb385dd70937 (patch)
tree7393c5f323433f39d2c64e7d9990aa7565397214 /Documentation
parent2ac21c6bc4249ee6d922f18dbec7266377592c32 (diff)
PM: Add sysfs attr for rechecking dev hash from PM trace
If the device which fails to resume is part of a loadable kernel module it won't be checked at startup against the magic number stored in the RTC. Add a read-only sysfs attribute /sys/power/pm_trace_dev_match which contains a list of newline separated devices (usually just the one) which currently match the last magic number. This allows the device which is failing to resume to be found after the modules are loaded again. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james@albanarts.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power29
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/s2ram.txt7
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
index 2875f1f74a07..194ca446ac28 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
@@ -99,9 +99,38 @@ Description:
dmesg -s 1000000 | grep 'hash matches'
+ If you do not get any matches (or they appear to be false
+ positives), it is possible that the last PM event point
+ referred to a device created by a loadable kernel module. In
+ this case cat /sys/power/pm_trace_dev_match (see below) after
+ your system is started up and the kernel modules are loaded.
+
CAUTION: Using it will cause your machine's real-time (CMOS)
clock to be set to a random invalid time after a resume.
+What; /sys/power/pm_trace_dev_match
+Date: October 2010
+Contact: James Hogan <james@albanarts.com>
+Description:
+ The /sys/power/pm_trace_dev_match file contains the name of the
+ device associated with the last PM event point saved in the RTC
+ across reboots when pm_trace has been used. More precisely it
+ contains the list of current devices (including those
+ registered by loadable kernel modules since boot) which match
+ the device hash in the RTC at boot, with a newline after each
+ one.
+
+ The advantage of this file over the hash matches printed to the
+ kernel log (see /sys/power/pm_trace), is that it includes
+ devices created after boot by loadable kernel modules.
+
+ Due to the small hash size necessary to fit in the RTC, it is
+ possible that more than one device matches the hash, in which
+ case further investigation is required to determine which
+ device is causing the problem. Note that genuine RTC clock
+ values (such as when pm_trace has not been used), can still
+ match a device and output it's name here.
+
What: /sys/power/pm_async
Date: January 2009
Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
diff --git a/Documentation/power/s2ram.txt b/Documentation/power/s2ram.txt
index 514b94fc931e..1bdfa0443773 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/s2ram.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/s2ram.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ machine that doesn't boot) is:
device (lspci and /sys/devices/pci* is your friend), and see if you can
fix it, disable it, or trace into its resume function.
+ If no device matches the hash (or any matches appear to be false positives),
+ the culprit may be a device from a loadable kernel module that is not loaded
+ until after the hash is checked. You can check the hash against the current
+ devices again after more modules are loaded using sysfs:
+
+ cat /sys/power/pm_trace_dev_match
+
For example, the above happens to be the VGA device on my EVO, which I
used to run with "radeonfb" (it's an ATI Radeon mobility). It turns out
that "radeonfb" simply cannot resume that device - it tries to set the