3 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
5 The /sys/power directory will contain files that will
6 provide a unified interface to the power management
11 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
13 The /sys/power/state file controls system sleep states.
14 Reading from this file returns the available sleep state
15 labels, which may be "mem", "standby", "freeze" and "disk"
16 (hibernation). The meanings of the first three labels depend on
17 the relative_sleep_states command line argument as follows:
18 1) relative_sleep_states = 1
19 "mem", "standby", "freeze" represent non-hibernation sleep
20 states from the deepest ("mem", always present) to the
21 shallowest ("freeze"). "standby" and "freeze" may or may
22 not be present depending on the capabilities of the
23 platform. "freeze" can only be present if "standby" is
25 2) relative_sleep_states = 0 (default)
26 "mem" - "suspend-to-RAM", present if supported.
27 "standby" - "power-on suspend", present if supported.
28 "freeze" - "suspend-to-idle", always present.
30 Writing to this file one of these strings causes the system to
31 transition into the corresponding state, if available. See
32 Documentation/power/states.txt for a description of what
33 "suspend-to-RAM", "power-on suspend" and "suspend-to-idle" mean.
37 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
39 The /sys/power/disk file controls the operating mode of the
40 suspend-to-disk mechanism. Reading from this file returns
41 the name of the method by which the system will be put to
42 sleep on the next suspend. There are four methods supported:
43 'firmware' - means that the memory image will be saved to disk
44 by some firmware, in which case we also assume that the
45 firmware will handle the system suspend.
46 'platform' - the memory image will be saved by the kernel and
47 the system will be put to sleep by the platform driver (e.g.
48 ACPI or other PM registers).
49 'shutdown' - the memory image will be saved by the kernel and
50 the system will be powered off.
51 'reboot' - the memory image will be saved by the kernel and
52 the system will be rebooted.
54 Additionally, /sys/power/disk can be used to turn on one of the
55 two testing modes of the suspend-to-disk mechanism: 'testproc'
56 or 'test'. If the suspend-to-disk mechanism is in the
57 'testproc' mode, writing 'disk' to /sys/power/state will cause
58 the kernel to disable nonboot CPUs and freeze tasks, wait for 5
59 seconds, unfreeze tasks and enable nonboot CPUs. If it is in
60 the 'test' mode, writing 'disk' to /sys/power/state will cause
61 the kernel to disable nonboot CPUs and freeze tasks, shrink
62 memory, suspend devices, wait for 5 seconds, resume devices,
63 unfreeze tasks and enable nonboot CPUs. Then, we are able to
64 look in the log messages and work out, for example, which code
65 is being slow and which device drivers are misbehaving.
67 The suspend-to-disk method may be chosen by writing to this
68 file one of the accepted strings:
77 It will only change to 'firmware' or 'platform' if the system
80 What: /sys/power/image_size
82 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
84 The /sys/power/image_size file controls the size of the image
85 created by the suspend-to-disk mechanism. It can be written a
86 string representing a non-negative integer that will be used
87 as an upper limit of the image size, in bytes. The kernel's
88 suspend-to-disk code will do its best to ensure the image size
89 will not exceed this number. However, if it turns out to be
90 impossible, the kernel will try to suspend anyway using the
91 smallest image possible. In particular, if "0" is written to
92 this file, the suspend image will be as small as possible.
94 Reading from this file will display the current image size
95 limit, which is set to 500 MB by default.
97 What: /sys/power/pm_trace
99 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
101 The /sys/power/pm_trace file controls the code which saves the
102 last PM event point in the RTC across reboots, so that you can
103 debug a machine that just hangs during suspend (or more
104 commonly, during resume). Namely, the RTC is only used to save
105 the last PM event point if this file contains '1'. Initially
106 it contains '0' which may be changed to '1' by writing a
107 string representing a nonzero integer into it.
109 To use this debugging feature you should attempt to suspend
110 the machine, then reboot it and run
112 dmesg -s 1000000 | grep 'hash matches'
114 If you do not get any matches (or they appear to be false
115 positives), it is possible that the last PM event point
116 referred to a device created by a loadable kernel module. In
117 this case cat /sys/power/pm_trace_dev_match (see below) after
118 your system is started up and the kernel modules are loaded.
120 CAUTION: Using it will cause your machine's real-time (CMOS)
121 clock to be set to a random invalid time after a resume.
123 What; /sys/power/pm_trace_dev_match
125 Contact: James Hogan <james@albanarts.com>
127 The /sys/power/pm_trace_dev_match file contains the name of the
128 device associated with the last PM event point saved in the RTC
129 across reboots when pm_trace has been used. More precisely it
130 contains the list of current devices (including those
131 registered by loadable kernel modules since boot) which match
132 the device hash in the RTC at boot, with a newline after each
135 The advantage of this file over the hash matches printed to the
136 kernel log (see /sys/power/pm_trace), is that it includes
137 devices created after boot by loadable kernel modules.
139 Due to the small hash size necessary to fit in the RTC, it is
140 possible that more than one device matches the hash, in which
141 case further investigation is required to determine which
142 device is causing the problem. Note that genuine RTC clock
143 values (such as when pm_trace has not been used), can still
144 match a device and output it's name here.
146 What: /sys/power/pm_async
148 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
150 The /sys/power/pm_async file controls the switch allowing the
151 user space to enable or disable asynchronous suspend and resume
152 of devices. If enabled, this feature will cause some device
153 drivers' suspend and resume callbacks to be executed in parallel
154 with each other and with the main suspend thread. It is enabled
155 if this file contains "1", which is the default. It may be
156 disabled by writing "0" to this file, in which case all devices
157 will be suspended and resumed synchronously.
159 What: /sys/power/wakeup_count
161 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
163 The /sys/power/wakeup_count file allows user space to put the
164 system into a sleep state while taking into account the
165 concurrent arrival of wakeup events. Reading from it returns
166 the current number of registered wakeup events and it blocks if
167 some wakeup events are being processed at the time the file is
168 read from. Writing to it will only succeed if the current
169 number of wakeup events is equal to the written value and, if
170 successful, will make the kernel abort a subsequent transition
171 to a sleep state if any wakeup events are reported after the
174 What: /sys/power/reserved_size
176 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
178 The /sys/power/reserved_size file allows user space to control
179 the amount of memory reserved for allocations made by device
180 drivers during the "device freeze" stage of hibernation. It can
181 be written a string representing a non-negative integer that
182 will be used as the amount of memory to reserve for allocations
183 made by device drivers' "freeze" callbacks, in bytes.
185 Reading from this file will display the current value, which is
186 set to 1 MB by default.
188 What: /sys/power/autosleep
190 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
192 The /sys/power/autosleep file can be written one of the strings
193 returned by reads from /sys/power/state. If that happens, a
194 work item attempting to trigger a transition of the system to
195 the sleep state represented by that string is queued up. This
196 attempt will only succeed if there are no active wakeup sources
197 in the system at that time. After every execution, regardless
198 of whether or not the attempt to put the system to sleep has
199 succeeded, the work item requeues itself until user space
200 writes "off" to /sys/power/autosleep.
202 Reading from this file causes the last string successfully
203 written to it to be returned.
205 What: /sys/power/wake_lock
207 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
209 The /sys/power/wake_lock file allows user space to create
210 wakeup source objects and activate them on demand (if one of
211 those wakeup sources is active, reads from the
212 /sys/power/wakeup_count file block or return false). When a
213 string without white space is written to /sys/power/wake_lock,
214 it will be assumed to represent a wakeup source name. If there
215 is a wakeup source object with that name, it will be activated
216 (unless active already). Otherwise, a new wakeup source object
217 will be registered, assigned the given name and activated.
218 If a string written to /sys/power/wake_lock contains white
219 space, the part of the string preceding the white space will be
220 regarded as a wakeup source name and handled as descrived above.
221 The other part of the string will be regarded as a timeout (in
222 nanoseconds) such that the wakeup source will be automatically
223 deactivated after it has expired. The timeout, if present, is
224 set regardless of the current state of the wakeup source object
227 Reads from this file return a string consisting of the names of
228 wakeup sources created with the help of it that are active at
229 the moment, separated with spaces.
232 What: /sys/power/wake_unlock
234 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
236 The /sys/power/wake_unlock file allows user space to deactivate
237 wakeup sources created with the help of /sys/power/wake_lock.
238 When a string is written to /sys/power/wake_unlock, it will be
239 assumed to represent the name of a wakeup source to deactivate.
240 If a wakeup source object of that name exists and is active at
241 the moment, it will be deactivated.
243 Reads from this file return a string consisting of the names of
244 wakeup sources created with the help of /sys/power/wake_lock
245 that are inactive at the moment, separated with spaces.
247 What: /sys/power/pm_print_times
249 Contact: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org>
251 The /sys/power/pm_print_times file allows user space to
252 control whether the time taken by devices to suspend and
253 resume is printed. These prints are useful for hunting down
254 devices that take too long to suspend or resume.
256 Writing a "1" enables this printing while writing a "0"
257 disables it. The default value is "0". Reading from this file
258 will display the current value.
260 What: /sys/power/pm_wakeup_irq
262 Contact: Alexandra Yates <alexandra.yates@linux.intel.org>
264 The /sys/power/pm_wakeup_irq file reports to user space the IRQ
265 number of the first wakeup interrupt (that is, the first
266 interrupt from an IRQ line armed for system wakeup) seen by the
267 kernel during the most recent system suspend/resume cycle.
269 This output is useful for system wakeup diagnostics of spurious