PM / Hibernate: document open(/dev/snapshot) side effects Opening and closing /dev/snapshot causes the kernel to carry out some hibernate preparations that should be documented. [rjw: Added the changelog.] Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
diff --git a/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt index b967cd9..81680f9 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ reading and writing. It is also impossible to have the device open more than once at a time. +Even opening the device has side effects. Data structures are +allocated, and PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE / PM_RESTORE_PREPARE chains are +called. + The ioctl() commands recognized by the device are: SNAPSHOT_FREEZE - freeze user space processes (the current process is