Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

[karo-tx-linux.git] / Documentation / power / basic-pm-debugging.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
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--- a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
@@ -75,12 +75,14 @@ you should do the following:
 # echo platform > /sys/power/disk
 # echo disk > /sys/power/state
 
-Then, the kernel will try to freeze processes, suspend devices, wait 5 seconds,
-resume devices and thaw processes.  If "platform" is written to
+Then, the kernel will try to freeze processes, suspend devices, wait a few
+seconds (5 by default, but configurable by the suspend.pm_test_delay module
+parameter), resume devices and thaw processes.  If "platform" is written to
 /sys/power/pm_test , then after suspending devices the kernel will additionally
 invoke the global control methods (eg. ACPI global control methods) used to
-prepare the platform firmware for hibernation.  Next, it will wait 5 seconds and
-invoke the platform (eg. ACPI) global methods used to cancel hibernation etc.
+prepare the platform firmware for hibernation.  Next, it will wait a
+configurable number of seconds and invoke the platform (eg. ACPI) global
+methods used to cancel hibernation etc.
 
 Writing "none" to /sys/power/pm_test causes the kernel to switch to the normal
 hibernation/suspend operations.  Also, when open for reading, /sys/power/pm_test