Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2015-07-01

Re: [PATCH] PM / hibernate/resume: clarify documentation

From: Pavel Machek <hidden>
Date: 2015-07-01 08:46:13

On Mon 2015-06-29 23:35:05, Uwe Geuder wrote:
it was not the whole truth that kernel mode cannot be used with swap on LVM

Signed-off-by: Uwe Geuder <redacted>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <redacted>

Thanks for clarifying this.

(Hmm, and I guess we shoudl rename swsusp.txt -> hibernation.txt one
day :-).

									Pavel
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 Documentation/power/swsusp.txt | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
index f732a83..8cc17ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
@@ -410,8 +410,17 @@ Documentation/usb/persist.txt.
 
 Q: Can I suspend-to-disk using a swap partition under LVM?
 
-A: No. You can suspend successfully, but you'll not be able to
-resume. uswsusp should be able to work with LVM. See suspend.sf.net.
+A: Yes and No.  You can suspend successfully, but the kernel will not be able
+to resume on its own.  You need an initramfs that can recognize the resume
+situation, activate the logical volume containing the swap volume (but not
+touch any filesystems!), and eventually call
+
+echo -n "$major:$minor" > /sys/power/resume
+
+where $major and $minor are the respective major and minor device numbers of
+the swap volume.
+
+uswsusp works with LVM, too.  See http://suspend.sourceforge.net/
 
 Q: I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.15 to 2.6.16. Both kernels were
 compiled with the similar configuration files. Anyway I found that
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