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Pavel Machek 23b168d425 PM: documentation cleanups
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07 01:27:17 -05:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 8314418629 Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Alan Stern 0458d5b4c9 USB: add USB-Persist facility
This patch (as886) adds the controversial USB-persist facility,
allowing USB devices to persist across a power loss during system
suspend.

The facility is controlled by a new Kconfig option (with appropriate
warnings about the potential dangers); when the option is off the
behavior will remain the same as it is now.  But when the option is
on, people will be able to use suspend-to-disk and keep their USB
filesystems intact -- something particularly valuable for small
machines where the root filesystem is on a USB device!

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-12 16:29:47 -07:00
John Anthony Kazos Jr be2a608bd0 documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8
Convert files within the Documentation directory to UTF-8.

Adrian Bunk:
small additional fixes

Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 08:58:19 +02:00
Johannes Berg 11d77d0c01 power management: remove firmware disk mode
This patch removes the firmware disk suspend mode which is the wrong approach,
it is supposed to be used for implementing firmware-based disk suspend but
cannot actually be used for that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30 16:40:40 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki ecbd0da1ec [PATCH] swsusp: document support for swap files
Document the "resume_offset=" command line parameter as well as the way in
which swap files are supported by swsusp.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
Matt LaPlante 5d3f083d8f Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
misc words.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 05:21:10 +01:00
Paolo Ornati 670e9f34ee Documentation: remove duplicated words
Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small
cleanups.

Examples:
        "and and" --> "and"
        "in in" --> "in"
        "the the" --> "the"
        "the the" --> "to the"
        ...

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
Matt LaPlante 2fe0ae78c6 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'H'-'M'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:50:39 +02:00
Pavel Machek e084dbd3a9 [PATCH] swsusp: documentation updates
Update documentation a bit, add more machines to video.txt list.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:43:00 -07:00
David Brownell b9827e4b29 [PATCH] USB: correct the USB info in Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
The swsusp.txt documentation harshes confusingly on USB, and this patch
addresses the issue.  It's harsh because it blames USB for some issues
that are generic to all drivers -- especially those supporting removable
media -- and it's confusing since it says that USB has the issue with
"suspend" not just swsusp ... while in reality, USB doesn't have the
issue when real system suspend states are used.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21 15:04:11 -07:00
Pavel Machek 543cc27d09 [PATCH] swsusp: documentation updates
Update suspend-to-RAM documentation with new machines, and makes message
when processes can't be stopped little clearer.  (In one case, waiting
longer actually did help).

From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>

  Warn in the documentation that data may be lost if there are some
  filesystems mounted from USB devices before suspend.

  [Thanks to Alan Stern for providing the answer to the question in the
  Q:-A: part.]

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:07 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 853609b61e [PATCH] swsusp: use bytes as image size units
Make swsusp use bytes as the image size units, which is needed for future
compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:12 -08:00
Adrian Bunk a58a414fd5 spelling: s/usefull/useful/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-10 00:08:17 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki ca0aec0f7a [PATCH] swsusp: make image size limit tunable
Make the suspend image size limit tunable via /sys/power/image_size.

It is necessary for systems on which there is a limited amount of swap
available for suspend.  It can also be useful for optimizing performance of
swsusp on systems with 1 GB of RAM or more.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:42 -08:00
Pavel Machek d7ae79c72d [PATCH] swsusp: update documentation
This updates documentation a bit (mostly removing obsolete stuff), and
marks swsusp as no longer experimental in config.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:16 -07:00
Pavel Machek 7e958883bc [PATCH] suspend: update documentation
Update suspend documentation.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2031d0f586 Merge Christoph's freeze cleanup patch 2005-06-25 17:16:53 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 3e1d1d28d9 [PATCH] Cleanup patch for process freezing
1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h:

   frozen(process)		Check for frozen process
   freezing(process)		Check if a process is being frozen
   freeze(process)		Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator)
   thaw_process(process)	Restart process
   frozen_process(process)	Process is frozen now

2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all
   kernel sources except sched.h

3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver

4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls.

5. Some whitespace cleanup

6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE
   cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check
   PF_FROZEN).

This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule
that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean
in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe!

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 17:10:13 -07:00
Pavel Machek fc5fb2c609 [PATCH] swsusp: documentation updates
This updates documentation and fixes pointers in MAINTAINERS file.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00