linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH 3/3 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v6: kexec hibernate/resume

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Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:00:35 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	nigel@...el.suspend2.net,
	Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@....edu>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH 3/3 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v6: kexec hibernate/resume

On Tuesday, 20 of November 2007, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Huang, Ying wrote:
> 
> > - What is the difference between PMSG_SUSPEND and PMSG_FREEZE?
> 
> SUSPEND means that the system is about to go into a low-power state, so 
> the driver should take the appropriate action to reduce the device's 
> power consumption.  It should also stop all I/O and DMA to the device.  
> Interrupts can remain enabled if the device is supposed to be a wakeup 
> source; otherwise they should be disabled.
> 
> FREEZE means that the system is going to hibernate, and devices need to
> be quiescent (no I/O, no DMA, and no interrupts) so that an atomic
> memory snapshot can be captured.  The driver should take the
> appropriate action to quiesce the device but the power level doesn't
> need to change.
> 
> PRETHAW means that the system is going to resume from hibernation by
> loading a previously-saved memory snapshot.  The driver should take the
> appropriate action to quiesce the device (no I/O, no DMA, and no
> interrupts) so that the snapshot can be safely restored, but the power
> level doesn't need to change.  The driver may also want to put the
> device into a special state so that the saved kernel's resume method
> will recognize the device has undergone a hibernation cycle and needs
> to be reinitialized.

Exactly.

For this reason, PMSG_SUSPEND should be used right before calling
hibernation_ops->enter() .

Greetings,
Rafael
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