-From kernel/suspend.c:
+Some warnings, first.
* BIG FAT WARNING *********************************************************
*
- * If you have unsupported (*) devices using DMA...
- * ...say goodbye to your data.
- *
* If you touch anything on disk between suspend and resume...
* ...kiss your data goodbye.
*
- * If your disk driver does not support suspend... (IDE does)
- * ...you'd better find out how to get along
- * without your data.
- *
- * If you change kernel command line between suspend and resume...
- * ...prepare for nasty fsck or worse.
+ * If you do resume from initrd after your filesystems are mounted...
+ * ...bye bye root partition.
+ * [this is actually same case as above]
*
- * If you change your hardware while system is suspended...
- * ...well, it was not good idea.
+ * If you have unsupported (*) devices using DMA, you may have some
+ * problems. If your disk driver does not support suspend... (IDE does),
+ * it may cause some problems, too. If you change kernel command line
+ * between suspend and resume, it may do something wrong. If you change
+ * your hardware while system is suspended... well, it was not good idea;
+ * but it will probably only crash.
*
* (*) suspend/resume support is needed to make it safe.
echo platform > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state
+Encrypted suspend image:
+------------------------
+If you want to store your suspend image encrypted with a temporary
+key to prevent data gathering after resume you must compile
+crypto and the aes algorithm into the kernel - modules won't work
+as they cannot be loaded at resume time.
+
Article about goals and implementation of Software Suspend for Linux
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You have your server on UPS. Power died, and UPS is indicating 30
seconds to failure. What do you do? Suspend to disk.
-Ethernet card in your server died. You want to replace it. Your
-server is not hotplug capable. What do you do? Suspend to disk,
-replace ethernet card, resume. If you are fast your users will not
-even see broken connections.
-
Q: Maybe I'm missing something, but why don't the regular I/O paths work?
A: Yes. That's what echo platform > /sys/power/disk does.
-Q: My machine doesn't work with ACPI. How can I use swsusp than ?
-
-A: Do a reboot() syscall with right parameters. Warning: glibc gets in
-its way, so check with strace:
-
-reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1, LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC2, 0xd000fce2)
-
-(Thanks to Peter Osterlund:)
-
-#include <unistd.h>
-#include <syscall.h>
-
-#define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead
-#define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC2 672274793
-#define LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_SW_SUSPEND 0xD000FCE2
-
-int main()
-{
- syscall(SYS_reboot, LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1, LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC2,
- LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_SW_SUSPEND, 0);
- return 0;
-}
-
-Also /sys/ interface should be still present.
-
Q: What is 'suspend2'?
A: suspend2 is 'Software Suspend 2', a forked implementation of
suspend image to prevent sensitive data from being stolen after
resume.
-Q: Why we cannot suspend to a swap file?
+Q: Why can't we suspend to a swap file?
A: Because accessing swap file needs the filesystem mounted, and
filesystem might do something wrong (like replaying the journal)
-during mount. [Probably could be solved by modifying every filesystem
-to support some kind of "really read-only!" option. Patches welcome.]
+during mount.
+
+There are few ways to get that fixed:
+
+1) Probably could be solved by modifying every filesystem to support
+some kind of "really read-only!" option. Patches welcome.
+
+2) suspend2 gets around that by storing absolute positions in on-disk
+image (and blocksize), with resume parameter pointing directly to
+suspend header.
+
+Q: Is there a maximum system RAM size that is supported by swsusp?
+
+A: It should work okay with highmem.
+
+Q: Does swsusp (to disk) use only one swap partition or can it use
+multiple swap partitions (aggregate them into one logical space)?
+
+A: Only one swap partition, sorry.
+
+Q: If my application(s) causes lots of memory & swap space to be used
+(over half of the total system RAM), is it correct that it is likely
+to be useless to try to suspend to disk while that app is running?
+
+A: No, it should work okay, as long as your app does not mlock()
+it. Just prepare big enough swap partition.
+
+Q: What information is usefull for debugging suspend-to-disk problems?
+
+A: Well, last messages on the screen are always useful. If something
+is broken, it is usually some kernel driver, therefore trying with as
+little as possible modules loaded helps a lot. I also prefer people to
+suspend from console, preferably without X running. Booting with
+init=/bin/bash, then swapon and starting suspend sequence manually
+usually does the trick. Then it is good idea to try with latest
+vanilla kernel.
+
+
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