Fix common misspellings

[linux-2.6.git] / Documentation / power / swsusp.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
index 5b8d6953f05e741b6b6a3dd88e1ee0c6681f680a..ac190cf1963e05e310edf6a96df2466f01eb1355 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ swsusp saves the state of the machine into active swaps and then reboots or
 powerdowns.  You must explicitly specify the swap partition to resume from with
 ``resume='' kernel option. If signature is found it loads and restores saved
 state. If the option ``noresume'' is specified as a boot parameter, it skips
-the resuming.
+the resuming.  If the option ``hibernate=nocompress'' is specified as a boot
+parameter, it saves hibernation image without compression.
 
 In the meantime while the system is suspended you should not add/remove any
 of the hardware, write to the filesystems, etc.
@@ -140,21 +141,11 @@ should be sent to the mailing list available through the suspend2
 website, and not to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. We are working
 toward merging suspend2 into the mainline kernel.
 
-Q: A kernel thread must voluntarily freeze itself (call 'refrigerator').
-I found some kernel threads that don't do it, and they don't freeze
-so the system can't sleep. Is this a known behavior?
-
-A: All such kernel threads need to be fixed, one by one. Select the
-place where the thread is safe to be frozen (no kernel semaphores
-should be held at that point and it must be safe to sleep there), and
-add:
-
-       try_to_freeze();
-
-If the thread is needed for writing the image to storage, you should
-instead set the PF_NOFREEZE process flag when creating the thread (and
-be very careful).
+Q: What is the freezing of tasks and why are we using it?
 
+A: The freezing of tasks is a mechanism by which user space processes and some
+kernel threads are controlled during hibernation or system-wide suspend (on some
+architectures).  See freezing-of-tasks.txt for details.
 
 Q: What is the difference between "platform" and "shutdown"?
 
@@ -201,7 +192,7 @@ Q: There don't seem to be any generally useful behavioral
 distinctions between SUSPEND and FREEZE.
 
 A: Doing SUSPEND when you are asked to do FREEZE is always correct,
-but it may be unneccessarily slow. If you want your driver to stay simple,
+but it may be unnecessarily slow. If you want your driver to stay simple,
 slowness may not matter to you. It can always be fixed later.
 
 For devices like disk it does matter, you do not want to spindown for
@@ -246,7 +237,7 @@ disk. Whole sequence goes like
 
       running system, user asks for suspend-to-disk
 
-      user processes are stopped (in common case there are none, but with resume-from-initrd, noone knows)
+      user processes are stopped (in common case there are none, but with resume-from-initrd, no one knows)
 
       read image from disk
 
@@ -393,6 +384,14 @@ safest thing is to unmount all filesystems on removable media (such USB,
 Firewire, CompactFlash, MMC, external SATA, or even IDE hotplug bays)
 before suspending; then remount them after resuming.
 
+There is a work-around for this problem.  For more information, see
+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.
+
 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
 suspend to disk (and resume) is much slower on 2.6.16 compared to