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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2006-01-06 00:15:56 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-06 08:33:42 -0800
commitca0aec0f7a94bf9f07fefa8bfd23282d4e8ceb8a (patch)
tree5f31f11eba908545d5e02698fe9c163a8612dd26 /Documentation/power
parentb3a93a255ec33a04776ec50efb30b7a99168dda2 (diff)
[PATCH] swsusp: make image size limit tunable
Make the suspend image size limit tunable via /sys/power/image_size. It is necessary for systems on which there is a limited amount of swap available for suspend. It can also be useful for optimizing performance of swsusp on systems with 1 GB of RAM or more. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/interface.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/swsusp.txt5
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/interface.txt b/Documentation/power/interface.txt
index f5ebda5f427..bd4ffb5bd49 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/interface.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/interface.txt
@@ -41,3 +41,14 @@ to. Writing to this file will accept one of
It will only change to 'firmware' or 'platform' if the system supports
it.
+/sys/power/image_size controls the size of the image created by
+the suspend-to-disk mechanism. It can be written a string
+representing a non-negative integer that will be used as an upper
+limit of the image size, in megabytes. The suspend-to-disk mechanism will
+do its best to ensure the image size will not exceed that number. However,
+if this turns out to be impossible, it will try to suspend anyway using the
+smallest image possible. In particular, if "0" is written to this file, the
+suspend image will be as small as possible.
+
+Reading from this file will display the current image size limit, which
+is set to 500 MB by default.
diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
index b0d50840788..cd0fcd89a6f 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state
echo platform > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state
+If you want to limit the suspend image size to N megabytes, do
+
+echo N > /sys/power/image_size
+
+before suspend (it is limited to 500 MB by default).
Encrypted suspend image:
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