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

diff --git a/Documentation/power/interface.txt b/Documentation/power/interface.txt
index f5ebda5..4117802 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/power/interface.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/interface.txt
@@ -41,3 +41,14 @@ to. Writing to this file will accept one of
 It will only change to 'firmware' or 'platform' if the system supports
 it. 
 
+/sys/power/image_size controls the size of the image created by
+the suspend-to-disk mechanism.  It can be written a string
+representing a non-negative integer that will be used as an upper
+limit of the image size, in bytes.  The suspend-to-disk mechanism will
+do its best to ensure the image size will not exceed that number.  However,
+if this turns out to be impossible, it will try to suspend anyway using the
+smallest image possible.  In particular, if "0" is written to this file, the
+suspend image will be as small as possible.
+
+Reading from this file will display the current image size limit, which
+is set to 500 MB by default.