From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Well, this is the most difficult part. ;-) Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/power/interface.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/power/interface.txt~pm-add-pm_trace-switch-doc Documentation/power/interface.txt --- a/Documentation/power/interface.txt~pm-add-pm_trace-switch-doc +++ a/Documentation/power/interface.txt @@ -52,3 +52,18 @@ suspend image will be as small as possib Reading from this file will display the current image size limit, which is set to 500 MB by default. + +/sys/power/pm_trace controls the code which saves the last PM event point in +the RTC across reboots, so that you can debug a machine that just hangs +during suspend (or more commonly, during resume). Namely, the RTC is only +used to save the last PM event point if this file contains '1'. Initially it +contains '0' which may be changed to '1' by writing a string representing a +nonzero integer into it. + +To use this debugging feature you should attempt to suspend the machine, then +reboot it and run + + dmesg -s 1000000 | grep 'hash matches' + +CAUTION: Using it will cause your machine's real-time (CMOS) clock to be +set to a random invalid time after a resume. _