80 lines
3.1 KiB
Plaintext
80 lines
3.1 KiB
Plaintext
|
|
System Power Management States
|
|
|
|
|
|
The kernel supports three power management states generically, though
|
|
each is dependent on platform support code to implement the low-level
|
|
details for each state. This file describes each state, what they are
|
|
commonly called, what ACPI state they map to, and what string to write
|
|
to /sys/power/state to enter that state
|
|
|
|
|
|
State: Standby / Power-On Suspend
|
|
ACPI State: S1
|
|
String: "standby"
|
|
|
|
This state offers minimal, though real, power savings, while providing
|
|
a very low-latency transition back to a working system. No operating
|
|
state is lost (the CPU retains power), so the system easily starts up
|
|
again where it left off.
|
|
|
|
We try to put devices in a low-power state equivalent to D1, which
|
|
also offers low power savings, but low resume latency. Not all devices
|
|
support D1, and those that don't are left on.
|
|
|
|
A transition from Standby to the On state should take about 1-2
|
|
seconds.
|
|
|
|
|
|
State: Suspend-to-RAM
|
|
ACPI State: S3
|
|
String: "mem"
|
|
|
|
This state offers significant power savings as everything in the
|
|
system is put into a low-power state, except for memory, which is
|
|
placed in self-refresh mode to retain its contents.
|
|
|
|
System and device state is saved and kept in memory. All devices are
|
|
suspended and put into D3. In many cases, all peripheral buses lose
|
|
power when entering STR, so devices must be able to handle the
|
|
transition back to the On state.
|
|
|
|
For at least ACPI, STR requires some minimal boot-strapping code to
|
|
resume the system from STR. This may be true on other platforms.
|
|
|
|
A transition from Suspend-to-RAM to the On state should take about
|
|
3-5 seconds.
|
|
|
|
|
|
State: Suspend-to-disk
|
|
ACPI State: S4
|
|
String: "disk"
|
|
|
|
This state offers the greatest power savings, and can be used even in
|
|
the absence of low-level platform support for power management. This
|
|
state operates similarly to Suspend-to-RAM, but includes a final step
|
|
of writing memory contents to disk. On resume, this is read and memory
|
|
is restored to its pre-suspend state.
|
|
|
|
STD can be handled by the firmware or the kernel. If it is handled by
|
|
the firmware, it usually requires a dedicated partition that must be
|
|
setup via another operating system for it to use. Despite the
|
|
inconvenience, this method requires minimal work by the kernel, since
|
|
the firmware will also handle restoring memory contents on resume.
|
|
|
|
If the kernel is responsible for persistantly saving state, a mechanism
|
|
called 'swsusp' (Swap Suspend) is used to write memory contents to
|
|
free swap space. swsusp has some restrictive requirements, but should
|
|
work in most cases. Some, albeit outdated, documentation can be found
|
|
in Documentation/power/swsusp.txt.
|
|
|
|
Once memory state is written to disk, the system may either enter a
|
|
low-power state (like ACPI S4), or it may simply power down. Powering
|
|
down offers greater savings, and allows this mechanism to work on any
|
|
system. However, entering a real low-power state allows the user to
|
|
trigger wake up events (e.g. pressing a key or opening a laptop lid).
|
|
|
|
A transition from Suspend-to-Disk to the On state should take about 30
|
|
seconds, though it's typically a bit more with the current
|
|
implementation.
|