PM / sleep: Introduce command line argument for sleep state enumeration

On some systems the platform doesn't support neither
PM_SUSPEND_MEM nor PM_SUSPEND_STANDBY, so PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE is the
only available system sleep state.  However, some user space frameworks
only use the "mem" and (sometimes) "standby" sleep state labels, so
the users of those systems need to modify user space in order to be
able to use system suspend at all and that is not always possible.

For this reason, add a new kernel command line argument,
relative_sleep_states, allowing the users of those systems to change
the way in which the kernel assigns labels to system sleep states.
Namely, for relative_sleep_states=1, the "mem", "standby" and "freeze"
labels will enumerate the available system sleem states from the
deepest to the shallowest, respectively, so that "mem" is always
present in /sys/power/state and the other state strings may or may
not be presend depending on what is supported by the platform.

Update system sleep states documentation to reflect this change.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

3 files changed, 83 insertions, 40 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
index 64c9276e9421..f4551816329e 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
@@ -7,19 +7,30 @@ Description:
 		subsystem.
 
 What:		/sys/power/state
-Date:		August 2006
+Date:		May 2014
 Contact:	Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
 Description:
-		The /sys/power/state file controls the system power state.
-		Reading from this file returns what states are supported,
-		which is hard-coded to 'freeze' (Low-Power Idle), 'standby'
-		(Power-On Suspend), 'mem' (Suspend-to-RAM), and 'disk'
-		(Suspend-to-Disk).
+		The /sys/power/state file controls system sleep states.
+		Reading from this file returns the available sleep state
+		labels, which may be "mem", "standby", "freeze" and "disk"
+		(hibernation).  The meanings of the first three labels depend on
+		the relative_sleep_states command line argument as follows:
+		 1) relative_sleep_states = 1
+		    "mem", "standby", "freeze" represent non-hibernation sleep
+		    states from the deepest ("mem", always present) to the
+		    shallowest ("freeze").  "standby" and "freeze" may or may
+		    not be present depending on the capabilities of the
+		    platform.  "freeze" can only be present if "standby" is
+		    present.
+		 2) relative_sleep_states = 0 (default)
+		    "mem" - "suspend-to-RAM", present if supported.
+		    "standby" - "power-on suspend", present if supported.
+		    "freeze" - "suspend-to-idle", always present.
 
 		Writing to this file one of these strings causes the system to
-		transition into that state. Please see the file
-		Documentation/power/states.txt for a description of each of
-		these states.
+		transition into the corresponding state, if available.  See
+		Documentation/power/states.txt for a description of what
+		"suspend-to-RAM", "power-on suspend" and "suspend-to-idle" mean.
 
 What:		/sys/power/disk
 Date:		September 2006
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 43842177b771..e19a88b63eeb 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2889,6 +2889,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
 			See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
 
+	relative_sleep_states=
+			[SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
+			state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
+			Format: { "0" | "1" }
+			0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
+			1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
+
 	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
 
 	reservetop=	[X86-32]
diff --git a/Documentation/power/states.txt b/Documentation/power/states.txt
index 442d43df9b25..50f3ef9177c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/states.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/states.txt
@@ -1,62 +1,87 @@
+System Power Management Sleep States
 
-System Power Management States
+(C) 2014 Intel Corp., Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
 
+The kernel supports up to four system sleep states generically, although three
+of them depend on the platform support code to implement the low-level details
+for each state.
 
-The kernel supports four power management states generically, though
-one is generic and the other three are dependent on platform support
-code to implement the low-level details for each state.
-This file describes each state, what they are
-commonly called, what ACPI state they map to, and what string to write
-to /sys/power/state to enter that state
+The states are represented by strings that can be read or written to the
+/sys/power/state file.  Those strings may be "mem", "standby", "freeze" and
+"disk", where the last one always represents hibernation (Suspend-To-Disk) and
+the meaning of the remaining ones depends on the relative_sleep_states command
+line argument.
 
-state:		Freeze / Low-Power Idle
+For relative_sleep_states=1, the strings "mem", "standby" and "freeze" label the
+available non-hibernation sleep states from the deepest to the shallowest,
+respectively.  In that case, "mem" is always present in /sys/power/state,
+because there is at least one non-hibernation sleep state in every system.  If
+the given system supports two non-hibernation sleep states, "standby" is present
+in /sys/power/state in addition to "mem".  If the system supports three
+non-hibernation sleep states, "freeze" will be present in /sys/power/state in
+addition to "mem" and "standby".
+
+For relative_sleep_states=0, which is the default, the following descriptions
+apply.
+
+state:		Suspend-To-Idle
 ACPI state:	S0
-String:		"freeze"
+Label:		"freeze"
 
-This state is a generic, pure software, light-weight, low-power state.
-It allows more energy to be saved relative to idle by freezing user
+This state is a generic, pure software, light-weight, system sleep state.
+It allows more energy to be saved relative to runtime idle by freezing user
 space and putting all I/O devices into low-power states (possibly
 lower-power than available at run time), such that the processors can
 spend more time in their idle states.
-This state can be used for platforms without Standby/Suspend-to-RAM
+
+This state can be used for platforms without Power-On Suspend/Suspend-to-RAM
 support, or it can be used in addition to Suspend-to-RAM (memory sleep)
-to provide reduced resume latency.
+to provide reduced resume latency.  It is always supported.
 
 
 State:		Standby / Power-On Suspend
 ACPI State:	S1
-String:		"standby"
+Label:		"standby"
 
-This state offers minimal, though real, power savings, while providing
-a very low-latency transition back to a working system. No operating
-state is lost (the CPU retains power), so the system easily starts up
+This state, if supported, offers moderate, though real, power savings, while
+providing a relatively low-latency transition back to a working system.  No
+operating state is lost (the CPU retains power), so the system easily starts up
 again where it left off. 
 
-We try to put devices in a low-power state equivalent to D1, which
-also offers low power savings, but low resume latency. Not all devices
-support D1, and those that don't are left on. 
+In addition to freezing user space and putting all I/O devices into low-power
+states, which is done for Suspend-To-Idle too, nonboot CPUs are taken offline
+and all low-level system functions are suspended during transitions into this
+state.  For this reason, it should allow more energy to be saved relative to
+Suspend-To-Idle, but the resume latency will generally be greater than for that
+state.
 
 
 State:		Suspend-to-RAM
 ACPI State:	S3
-String:		"mem"
+Label:		"mem"
 
-This state offers significant power savings as everything in the
-system is put into a low-power state, except for memory, which is
-placed in self-refresh mode to retain its contents. 
+This state, if supported, offers significant power savings as everything in the
+system is put into a low-power state, except for memory, which should be placed
+into the self-refresh mode to retain its contents.  All of the steps carried out
+when entering Power-On Suspend are also carried out during transitions to STR.
+Additional operations may take place depending on the platform capabilities.  In
+particular, on ACPI systems the kernel passes control to the BIOS (platform
+firmware) as the last step during STR transitions and that usually results in
+powering down some more low-level components that aren't directly controlled by
+the kernel.
 
-System and device state is saved and kept in memory. All devices are
-suspended and put into D3. In many cases, all peripheral buses lose
-power when entering STR, so devices must be able to handle the
-transition back to the On state. 
+System and device state is saved and kept in memory.  All devices are suspended
+and put into low-power states.  In many cases, all peripheral buses lose power
+when entering STR, so devices must be able to handle the transition back to the
+"on" state.
 
-For at least ACPI, STR requires some minimal boot-strapping code to
-resume the system from STR. This may be true on other platforms. 
+For at least ACPI, STR requires some minimal boot-strapping code to resume the
+system from it.  This may be the case on other platforms too.
 
 
 State:		Suspend-to-disk
 ACPI State:	S4
-String:		"disk"
+Label:		"disk"
 
 This state offers the greatest power savings, and can be used even in
 the absence of low-level platform support for power management. This