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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2007-07-19 01:47:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-19 10:04:42 -0700
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PM: introduce hibernation and suspend notifiers
Make it possible to register hibernation and suspend notifiers, so that subsystems can perform hibernation-related or suspend-related operations that should not be carried out by device drivers' .suspend() and .resume() routines. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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+Suspend notifiers
+ (C) 2007 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, GPL
+
+There are some operations that device drivers may want to carry out in their
+.suspend() routines, but shouldn't, because they can cause the hibernation or
+suspend to fail. For example, a driver may want to allocate a substantial amount
+of memory (like 50 MB) in .suspend(), but that shouldn't be done after the
+swsusp's memory shrinker has run.
+
+Also, there may be some operations, that subsystems want to carry out before a
+hibernation/suspend or after a restore/resume, requiring the system to be fully
+functional, so the drivers' .suspend() and .resume() routines are not suitable
+for this purpose. For example, device drivers may want to upload firmware to
+their devices after a restore from a hibernation image, but they cannot do it by
+calling request_firmware() from their .resume() routines (user land processes
+are frozen at this point). The solution may be to load the firmware into
+memory before processes are frozen and upload it from there in the .resume()
+routine. Of course, a hibernation notifier may be used for this purpose.
+
+The subsystems that have such needs can register suspend notifiers that will be
+called upon the following events by the suspend core:
+
+PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE The system is going to hibernate or suspend, tasks will
+ be frozen immediately.
+
+PM_POST_HIBERNATION The system memory state has been restored from a
+ hibernation image or an error occured during the
+ hibernation. Device drivers' .resume() callbacks have
+ been executed and tasks have been thawed.
+
+PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE The system is preparing for a suspend.
+
+PM_POST_SUSPEND The system has just resumed or an error occured during
+ the suspend. Device drivers' .resume() callbacks have
+ been executed and tasks have been thawed.
+
+It is generally assumed that whatever the notifiers do for
+PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE, should be undone for PM_POST_HIBERNATION. Analogously,
+operations performed for PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE should be reversed for
+PM_POST_SUSPEND. Additionally, all of the notifiers are called for
+PM_POST_HIBERNATION if one of them fails for PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE, and
+all of the notifiers are called for PM_POST_SUSPEND if one of them fails for
+PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE.
+
+The hibernation and suspend notifiers are called with pm_mutex held. They are
+defined in the usual way, but their last argument is meaningless (it is always
+NULL). To register and/or unregister a suspend notifier use the functions
+register_pm_notifier() and unregister_pm_notifier(), respectively, defined in
+include/linux/suspend.h . If you don't need to unregister the notifier, you can
+also use the pm_notifier() macro defined in include/linux/suspend.h .