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@@ -52,3 +52,18 @@ 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.
+
+/sys/power/pm_trace controls the code which saves the last PM event point in
+the RTC across reboots, so that you can debug a machine that just hangs
+during suspend (or more commonly, during resume). Namely, the RTC is only
+used to save the last PM event point if this file contains '1'. Initially it
+contains '0' which may be changed to '1' by writing a string representing a
+nonzero integer into it.
+
+To use this debugging feature you should attempt to suspend the machine, then
+reboot it and run
+
+ dmesg -s 1000000 | grep 'hash matches'
+
+CAUTION: Using it will cause your machine's real-time (CMOS) clock to be
+set to a random invalid time after a resume.