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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/interface.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/swsusp.txt | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/power/interface.txt b/Documentation/power/interface.txt index f5ebda5f4276..bd4ffb5bd49a 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 b0d50840788e..cd0fcd89a6f0 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: ------------------------ |