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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2017-07-31 23:43:18 +0200
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2017-08-05 01:51:26 +0200
commite870c6c87cf9484090d28f2a68aa29e008960c93 (patch)
tree9d19e498e1ed8bcc864b66d5817f03d09cc6ddcd /Documentation/power
parent635173a17b0323c28a39fb06fa36d876035cd2b9 (diff)
ACPI / PM: Prefer suspend-to-idle over S3 on some systems
Modify the ACPI system sleep support setup code to select suspend-to-idle as the default system sleep state if (1) the ACPI_FADT_LOW_POWER_S0 flag is set in the FADT and (2) the Low Power Idle S0 _DSM interface has been discovered and (3) the default sleep state was not selected from the kernel command line. The main motivation for this change is that systems where the (1) and (2) conditions are met typically ship with OSes that don't exercise the S3 path in the platform firmware which remains untested and turns out to be non-functional at least in some cases. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Tested-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/power/states.txt b/Documentation/power/states.txt
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@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ only one way to cause the system to go into the Suspend-To-RAM state (write
The default suspend mode (ie. the one to be used without writing anything into
/sys/power/mem_sleep) is either "deep" (if Suspend-To-RAM is supported) or
"s2idle", but it can be overridden by the value of the "mem_sleep_default"
-parameter in the kernel command line.
+parameter in the kernel command line. On some ACPI-based systems, depending on
+the information in the FADT, the default may be "s2idle" even if Suspend-To-RAM
+is supported.
The properties of all of the sleep states are described below.