swsusp

swsusp
Written in C
Operating system Linux
License GNU General Public License

swsusp (Software Suspend) is a kernel feature/program which is part of power management framework in the Linux kernel. It's the default suspend framework as of kernel 3.8.

Objective

SWSUSP helps to drive the system to a low power state (called suspend) when not actively used while providing the ability to return to the same state as before suspend (called resume/restore).

Features

As of 3.8 Swsusp provides the following options under suspend:

For more details on Swsusp refer to kernel documentation under Documentation/power/swsusp.txt

Usage

To enable swsusp, the following should be selected during kernel configuration :


Power management options → <*>Power management support (CONFIG_PM) 
Power management options → <*>Software Suspend (CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND) 
Power management options → [/dev/resume_partition]Default resume partition (CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION)

The /dev/resume_partition needs to be replaced by the actual swap partition that is to be used for suspending. Otherwise resume=/dev/resume_partition can be given as a parameter during system bootup. The actual suspend is done by :


echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state

You may check other suspend options available by doing"

cat /sys/power/state

depending on your kernel config it will show something similar to [standby] mem disk

and options available under disk can be viewed by

cat /sys/power/disk

depending on your kernel config it will show something similar to [platform] shutdown reboot

swsusp lacks compression and graphical progress indication which can be provided through Uswsusp.

See also

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