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update comments in pm.h describing Xen Guest save/restore/checkpoint use case

Message ID 1297929363-27183-1-git-send-email-rshriram@cs.ubc.ca (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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Shriram Rajagopalan Feb. 17, 2011, 7:56 a.m. UTC
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diff --git a/include/linux/pm.h b/include/linux/pm.h
index dd9c7ab..2ddd9d3 100644
--- a/include/linux/pm.h
+++ b/include/linux/pm.h
@@ -516,6 +516,25 @@  extern void update_pm_runtime_accounting(struct device *dev);
  * well as during system sleep states like PM_SUSPEND_STANDBY.  They may
  * be able to use wakeup events to exit from runtime low-power states,
  * or from system low-power states such as standby or suspend-to-RAM.
+ *
+ * Xen Guest Kernels use PM_FREEZE, PM_RESTORE and PM_THAW to implement
+ * VM save/restore/checkpoint functionality. Save and Restore are somewhat
+ * similar to hibernate functionality. The sequence of events is shown below:
+ *        dpm_suspend_start(PMSG_FREEZE);
+ *
+ *              dpm_suspend_noirq(PMSG_FREEZE);
+ *
+ *                     sysdev_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE);
+ *                     cancelled = suspend_hypercall()
+ *                     sysdev_resume();
+ *
+ *             dpm_resume_noirq(cancelled ? PMSG_THAW : PMSG_RESTORE);
+ *
+ *     dpm_resume_end(cancelled ? PMSG_THAW : PMSG_RESTORE);
+ *
+ * If the syspend_hypercall returns 1, it means that the VM was merely
+ * checkpointed (akin to THAW). If it returns 0, it means the system has been
+ * fully restored from its on-disk snapshot (akin to RESTORE).
  */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP