Hi!
> > > > During swsusp the system is
> > > > supposed to be completely off, with no suspend power available. Hence
> > > > all the power sessions are guaranteed to be interrupted, and the boot
> > > > kernel doesn't have to worry about destroying any of them.
> > >
> > > Not necessarily. x86 hardware implementations of suspend-to-disk retain
> > > some power during suspend. Not many (if any) devices will retain context,
> > > but the system is definitely not completely "off".
> >
> > As a rule swsusp (or firmware suspend-to-disk) power off everything except
> > what's needed to power up the motherboard ... or to provide "5 AM wakeup"
> > type events using a battery-backed realtime clock. Maintaining VBUS power
> > sessions from USB host controllers is one of those "theoretically allowed,
> > but never observed in the wild" cases.
Napa machine seems to maintain USB power even while turned off.
> > Right, not "completely" off ... but certainly nowhere as close to "on" as
> > would be true of suspend-to-RAM. And regardless, the problem in $SUBJECT
> > is when Linux trashes the state which the limited "on" is there to
> > maintain.
>
> This isn't necessarily true either. Suspend2 has supported writing the image,
> then suspending to ram for a year or two. uswsusp has just gained the same
> functionality. In this state, if you don't pull the plug/drain the battery,
> you never actually power down. Having said that, this might be a different
> kettle of fish though, because there's no boot kernel in that case. For
> Suspend2 (and uswsusp, I assume), it's more akin to backing out of the cycle
> at the last possible moment before powering down.
Yep it is same for uswsusp, and probably irrelevant here.
Pavel
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