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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>
Pavel Machek 15 năm trước cách đây
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Documentation/power/userland-swsusp.txt

@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ assumed to be in the resume mode.  The device cannot be open for simultaneous
 reading and writing.  It is also impossible to have the device open more than
 reading and writing.  It is also impossible to have the device open more than
 once at a time.
 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:
 The ioctl() commands recognized by the device are:
 
 
 SNAPSHOT_FREEZE - freeze user space processes (the current process is
 SNAPSHOT_FREEZE - freeze user space processes (the current process is