Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:21:56 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PM / hibernate: Introduce snapshot test mode for hibernation |
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Hi!
> On 2016???07???13??? 17:50, Pavel Machek wrote: > >On Thu 2016-07-07 14:40:58, Chen Yu wrote: > >>This mode is to verify if the snapshot data written to > >>swap device can be successfully restored to memory. It > >>is useful to ease the debugging process on hibernation, > >>since this mode can not only bypass the BIOSen/bootloader, > >>but also the system re-initialization. > >> > >>For example: > >>$ sudo echo snapshot > /sys/power/disk > >>$ sudo echo disk > /sys/power/state > >> > >>/* manual resume.*/ > >>$ sudo echo 8:3 > /sys/power/resume > >Your examples will not work, will they? > It works on my platform, although I did not tested it for too many > rounds.
Please check again:
sudo echo disk > /sys/power/state -bash: /sys/power/state: Permission denied
...because bash does the open, not echo.
> >This is also quite tricky/dangerous. If you do this with filesystems > >mounted R/W, it is "good bye, filesystems". > Ah, yes, this is quite tricky, maybe we can use this option as a > debug method, > for example, boot with rootfs = initrd, without mounting any disks, > and then swapon the swap device, and do a testing. This should be safer?
Yeah, that's the way. Read-only root is other option.
> >I guess updating documentation would be welcome from my side, > >otherwise it should be ok. > OK, I'll update the documents.
Just add fat warning into the documentation.
Thanks, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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