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PM / hibernate: clarify resume documentation

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it was not the whole truth that kernel mode cannot be used with swap on LVM

Signed-off-by: Uwe Geuder <linuxkernel2015-ugeuder@snkmail.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Uwe Geuder 2015-06-29 23:35:05 +03:00 committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
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@ -410,8 +410,17 @@ Documentation/usb/persist.txt.
Q: Can I suspend-to-disk using a swap partition under LVM?
A: No. You can suspend successfully, but you'll not be able to
resume. uswsusp should be able to work with LVM. See suspend.sf.net.
A: Yes and No. You can suspend successfully, but the kernel will not be able
to resume on its own. You need an initramfs that can recognize the resume
situation, activate the logical volume containing the swap volume (but not
touch any filesystems!), and eventually call
echo -n "$major:$minor" > /sys/power/resume
where $major and $minor are the respective major and minor device numbers of
the swap volume.
uswsusp works with LVM, too. See http://suspend.sourceforge.net/
Q: I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.15 to 2.6.16. Both kernels were
compiled with the similar configuration files. Anyway I found that